Christine Milne: Clean Energy Repeal Bill [Amendment]
The Australian Greens Leader, Senator Christine Milne, sought to amend the bill that tears down Australia's action on climate change, Clean Energy Repeal Bill. The amendment reads as follows:
(a) rejects this bill and the related bills;
(b) recognises that:
(i) the world is on track for 4 degrees of warming, and
(ii) warming of less than 1 degree is already intensifying extreme weather events in Australia and around the world with enormous costs to life and property; and
(c) calls on the Government to:
(i) protect the Australian people and environment from climate change by approving no new coal mines or extensions of existing mines, or new coal export terminals, and
(ii) adopt a trajectory of 40 to 60 per cent below 2000 levels by 2030 and net carbon zero by 2050 emissions reduction target in global negotiations for a 2015 treaty
Both the Labor and Liberal parties voted against this amendment.
