Paris Agreement

The same number of senators voted for and against this motion, which means it failed. Motions like these don't make any legal changes on their own but they can be politically influential as they represent the will of the Senate.

Motion text

That the Senate—

(a) notes that the Morrison Government intends to use so called Kyoto carryover credits to meet its Paris Agreement target even though:

(i) no other country is planning to use Kyoto carryover credits to meet Paris Agreement commitments,

(ii) nine prominent Australian environmental law experts have previously called the use of Kyoto carryover credits in the Paris Agreement 'legally baseless in international law', and

(iii) the Business Council of Australia and BHP among other business groups have called on the Government not to use Kyoto carryover credits; and

(b) calls on the Morrison Government to rule out the use of Kyoto carryover credits to meet Paris Agreement emission reduction targets.