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senate vote 2014-10-30#6
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Bills — Carbon Farming Initiative Amendment Bill 2014; Second Reading- Carbon Farming Initiative Amendment Bill 2014 - Second Reading - Criticise the Direct Action policy
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senate vote 2014-10-30#6
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<p class="speaker">Christine Milne</p><p>I move the second reading amendment on sheet 7611, as foreshadowed in my speech during the second reading debate:</p><p class="italic">At the end of the motion, add:</p>- The majority disagreed with Greens Senator [Christine Milne](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/senate/tasmania/christine_milne)'s [statement](http://www.openaustralia.org/senate/?gid=2014-10-30.174.1) that:
- * Australia will use its entire [2050 emissions budget](http://www.climatechangeauthority.gov.au/reviews/targets-and-progress-review/part-c) within sixteen years if no changes are made, and
- * the [Direct Action policy](http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-12-20/coalition-climate-change-direct-action-policy-explained/5067188) (which this bill is a key part of) will not guarantee emissions reductions.
- ###Main idea of the bill
- The bill creates an Emissions Reduction Fund so the Government can buy domestic [greenhouse gas](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas) emissions reductions and [offsets](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_offset) by [reverse auction](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_auction). It also makes some changes to the [Carbon Farming Initiative](http://www.daff.gov.au/climatechange/cfi), like introducing a 25-year-long option for [carbon sequestration](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_sequestration) projects (right now all projects have to run for 100 years).
- ###Carbon Farming Initiative
- The Carbon Farming Initiative lets farmers and land managers earn [carbon credits](http://www.cleanenergyregulator.gov.au/ANREU/Concise-description-of-units/Australian-carbon-credit-units/Pages/default.aspx) by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and [storing carbon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_sequestration) in vegetation and soils by changing their agricultural and land management practices.
- ###Background to the bill
- The Emissions Reduction Fund is a key part of the Coalition Government's [Direct Action policy](http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-12-20/coalition-climate-change-direct-action-policy-explained/5067188), which was an [election commitment](https://www.liberal.org.au/our-plan/environment). It will replace the [carbon price](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_pricing_in_Australia) as the main part of the Australian Government's effort to reduce [greenhouse gas](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas) emissions.
- Australia has agreed with the [Kyoto Protocol](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol) to the [United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Framework_Convention_on_Climate_Change), which means that Australia has agreed to reduce emissions by five per cent of 2000 levels by 2020.
- Read more about the changes made by the bill in the [bills digest](http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/bd/bd1415a/15bd023).
<p class="italic">but the Senate:</p><p class="italic">(a) notes that if we continue without change Australia will use its entire 2050 emissions</p><p class="italic">budget within sixteen years and the world will warm by at least 4 degrees by 2100,</p><p class="italic">destroying Australia's Great Barrier Reef, agricultural industries and creating</p><p class="italic">massive vulnerabilities in public health and national security; and</p><p class="italic">(b) is of the opinion that there is no time to waste on an ineffective, expensive 'Direct</p><p class="italic">Action' policy that allows unlimited pollution, will hurt our global competitiveness</p><p class="italic">and will give taxpayers' money to the biggest polluters with no guarantee of</p><p class="italic">emissions reductions.</p> <p class="speaker">Stephen Parry</p><p>The question is that the amendment moved by Senator Milne be agreed to.</p><p></p><p>The question now is that the bill be read a second time.</p><p></p><p>Bill read a second time.</p>
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