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senate vote 2022-09-08#13
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- The majority voted in favour of a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?id=2022-09-08.81.1) to agree with the [remaining stages](https://peo.gov.au/understand-our-parliament/how-parliament-works/bills-and-laws/making-a-law-in-the-australian-parliament/) of the bills and so pass them in the Senate.
- The bills will now return to the House of Representatives, where our MPs will decide whether they agree with the Senate amendments.
### What is the main idea of the bills?- ### What does the Climate Change Bill 2022 do?
According to the [Explanatory Memorandum](https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id:legislation/billhome/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22legislation%2Fems%2Fr6885_ems_9d4ce4ae-c74e-4da9-9fc2-8c321d6d932f%22;rec=0):- According to the [bills digest](https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/bd/bd2223a/Climate_Change_Bill_2022_and_Climate_Change_Consequential_Amendments_Bill_2022), the bill's primary purpose:
> *Under the Paris Agreement, to which Australia is a Party, countries are required to communicate their Nationally Determined Contribution, or NDC, which sets out their emissions reduction ambitions. On 16 June 2022, Australia communicated its updated NDC under Article 4 of the Paris Agreement to the UN. This updated NDC included confirmation of Australia’s commitment to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, and a new, increased, 2030 target of 43% below 2005 levels by 2030.*- > *...is to incorporate Australia’s national greenhouse gas emission reduction targets (‘emissions reduction targets’, or ‘targets’) in national laws.*
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> [...]- > *The Paris Agreement, to which Australia is a Party, requires Parties to set economy wide absolute emission reduction targets, and to describe these in documents known as nationally determined contributions (NDCs). Although Australia updated its emission reduction targets in an NDC pledge made to the international community in June 2022, the detail of the targets is not presently codified in national law. If enacted, [this bill] would address that situation.*
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> *This bill will ensure that Australia’s emissions reduction targets are not just recorded in international settings, but are clearly stated in Australia’s domestic law. As reflected in the objects clause of the bill, Australia’s emissions reduction targets will contribute to the global goals of keeping global temperature rise this century well under 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and pursuing efforts to keep warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Formalising the targets in legislation will deliver certainty to the Australian community about what these commitments are, and underscore their importance to the future of this country. The targets set a floor on Australia’s emissions reduction ambition, not a ceiling. There is nothing in this bill that would prevent these targets being surpassed or achieved early.*- > *[The bill] has three key functions:*
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- > * *to set out Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets in domestic law*
- > * *to require annual Ministerial statements to Parliament regarding climate change and progress towards achievement of emissions reduction targets*
- > * *to give advisory functions regarding these targets and statements to the Climate Change Authority (CCA).*
- ### What does the Climate Change (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2022 do?
- According to the [bills digest](https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/bd/bd2223a/Climate_Change_Bill_2022_and_Climate_Change_Consequential_Amendments_Bill_2022), the bill would:
- > *... amend 14 existing Commonwealth Acts relating to climate, energy, infrastructure investment, and scientific research.*
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- > *The main purpose of the amendments is to require selected Commonwealth entities (including the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC), Clean Energy Regulator (CER), Export Finance Australia, Infrastructure Australia, and the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) to consider the emissions reduction targets when exercising their statutory responsibilities.*
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- > *[The bill] does this by proposing new sections or amending/replacing existing sections to include:*
- > * *an objective of facilitating achievement of Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets into the objects clause of the majority of the nominated Acts*
- > * *to clarify the constitutional basis of some of the named Acts.*
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senate vote 2022-09-08#13
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2022-09-09 11:57:44
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Bills — Climate Change Bill 2022, Climate Change (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2022; Third Reading- Climate Change Bill 2022, Climate Change (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2022 - Third Reading - Pas the bills
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<p class="speaker">Sue Lines</p><p>The question is that the remaining stages of the bills be agreed to and the bills be now passed.</p><p></p><p></p> -
- The majority voted in favour of a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?id=2022-09-08.81.1) to agree with the [remaining stages](https://peo.gov.au/understand-our-parliament/how-parliament-works/bills-and-laws/making-a-law-in-the-australian-parliament/) of the bills and so pass them in the Senate.
- The bills will now return to the House of Representatives, where our MPs will decide whether they agree with the Senate amendments.
- ### What is the main idea of the bills?
- According to the [Explanatory Memorandum](https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id:legislation/billhome/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22legislation%2Fems%2Fr6885_ems_9d4ce4ae-c74e-4da9-9fc2-8c321d6d932f%22;rec=0):
- > *Under the Paris Agreement, to which Australia is a Party, countries are required to communicate their Nationally Determined Contribution, or NDC, which sets out their emissions reduction ambitions. On 16 June 2022, Australia communicated its updated NDC under Article 4 of the Paris Agreement to the UN. This updated NDC included confirmation of Australia’s commitment to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, and a new, increased, 2030 target of 43% below 2005 levels by 2030.*
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- > *This bill will ensure that Australia’s emissions reduction targets are not just recorded in international settings, but are clearly stated in Australia’s domestic law. As reflected in the objects clause of the bill, Australia’s emissions reduction targets will contribute to the global goals of keeping global temperature rise this century well under 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and pursuing efforts to keep warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Formalising the targets in legislation will deliver certainty to the Australian community about what these commitments are, and underscore their importance to the future of this country. The targets set a floor on Australia’s emissions reduction ambition, not a ceiling. There is nothing in this bill that would prevent these targets being surpassed or achieved early.*
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