Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

CLIMATE CHANGE ACT 2022 - SECT 3

    The objects of this Act are:

  (aa)   to advance an effective and progressive response to the urgent threat of climate change drawing on the best available scientific knowledge; and

  (a)   to set out Australia's greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets which contribute to the global goals of:

  (i)   holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre - industrial levels; and

  (ii)   pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre - industrial levels; and

  (b)   to promote accountability and ambition by requiring the Minister to:

  (i)   prepare annual climate change statements; and

  (ii)   cause copies of those statements to be tabled in each House of the Parliament; and

  (c)   to ensure that independent advice from the Climate Change Authority informs:

  (i)   the preparation of annual climate change statements; and

  (ii)   the greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets to be included in a new or adjusted nationally determined contribution.