Thank you, Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Angus.
My questions for officials are focused on the kind of advice the minister is receiving from the department on a few statements that we heard from the minister a few times.
The first is this pronouncement about net zero by 2050 being the goal as opposed to 1.5°C as the global average temperature rise that the IPCC has called for. At COP26 a number of low-lying states said that the difference between 1.5°C and 2°C was a “death sentence” for them.
Is there anyone in the department who's telling the minister that net zero by 2050 is the same as 1.5°C ?