Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Murray Darling Basin) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Noting that the government's target for emissions reduction in Australia beyond 2020 is an 80 per cent reduction against business as usual and the statement by Treasury officials that they have assumed all countries, including the OPEC countries, will make similar reductions, I ask the minister: is it really the government's assumption that OPEC countries like Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia will reduce emissions by 80 per cent against business as usual scenarios by 2050?