Woods Megan; Watts SimonHon Dr MEGAN WOODS (Labour—Wigram): Thank you Mr Chairman. I'd be interested if the Minister were able to give the House some more detail around what those transparent pathways and what those measures may be. Because I think as we are looking to emissions budget two and even emissions budget three there are some very large questions hanging over whether or not we are going to be able to meet them. The Prime Minister has made firm commitments about them and I think that it is this House's duty now to have some scrutiny of that in this annual review debate and know some specifics not election pledges around whether or not things will be met.One of the things I am interested in hearing from the Minister on specifically is the Climate Change Commission gave some very clear advice to the committee that the emissions trading scheme (ETS) alone could not reach our targets that there was a need for complementary measures—measures that under the previous Government had taken the form of things like the Government Investment in Decarbonising Industry things like the Clean Car Discount. We know how much heavy lifting they were doing in terms of not only emissions budgets one but two and three. Given that those complementary measures have gone I'd be very keen to know the detail of what the replacement complementary measures would look like what form they would take because I think everybody is of the view of that.In a similar vein one of the things I'm very keen to hear from the Minister in the chair about is whether he has received advice from his colleague the Minister for Energy around whether simply doubling renewable electricity targets will be sufficient to reach our targets.Obviously this is a supply-side measure that is being put in place in terms of the doubling of renewable generation. Everybody knows that there needs to be a massive increase in our generation of electricity but whether or not he's had advice passed on to him from the Minister for Energy that in addition to those supply-side measures there's going to give to be some demand-side measures coming down from the Government in order to meet them as well.I'd also be interested—just to batch them up for the Minister in the chair—given the methane review that he is doing separately to the independent Climate Change Commission I'm keen to get an update on that work but also to understand if there is any plan to change either the domestic targets as a consequence of that review or indeed our international targets. Of course any change to our domestic targets would require legislative change in terms of what I think is a piece of legislation this House can be proud of in the multi-partisan way in which we came to setting those targets. So I'm very keen to know whether there have been discussions with colleagues or within coalition parties about whether or not there'd been any attempt to change those domestic targets.Hon SIMON WATTS (Minister of Climate Change): Well thank you very much Mr Chair. I acknowledge the questions from the Minister; I'll work my way through those in order. One of the questions was in regard to the complementary policies and this Government has been very clear that we see that the emissions trading scheme will do the heavy lifting in regard to emissions reduction but in addition to the ETS we are going to need to consider complementary policies that allow us to reduce gross domestic emissions. The mechanism in which those initiatives will be undertaken will be different from the prior Government. I think the model under the prior Government was to write blank cheques and throw them over the fence. That is not our mechanism in which we do that but we do acknowledge the need for complementary policies. How we will achieve that will be different from the prior Government but be very clear that this coalition Government is focused on the activities that will reduce emissions and focused on actually doing the doing around implementation.One of the matters that the member raises is a number of examples of policy interventions that the prior Government had in play that this Government has assessed and is no longer continuing. The reality is that in the absence of a broad and transparent plan which has all those initiatives on a plan that you can see the impact and add that up there was no plan in that regard. There was no transparency. So we hear examples in regard to initiatives which really in the scheme of things in the scheme of our gap and challenge that we have in order to meet our 2050—and particularly our 2030 targets—are inconsequential. We will have a different mechanism in which to do that.Another question by the member was in regard to the broader methane review. I'm not going to presuppose the outcome of that independent review because the review hasn't actually started. We haven't got terms of reference and we haven't got a group of individuals in order to undertake that review but the member can rest assured that the purpose of that review is to undertake an independent assessment of the methane targets ensure that those targets are credible that they position ourselves competitively with the international market. We are absolutely resolute in ensuring that the composition of the committee and the individuals that undertake that review have integrity and have independence in regard to that. I welcome contributions in terms of individuals around that and the member will be aware around that and that goes for Opposition parties in this House.We want to move from a conversation around targets rapidly to the conversation which is: what is required in regard to decarbonisation? How do we remove emissions in the agricultural space and implement those interventions? That is the conversation that we need to be having and that's the aspect of priority. But we are committed to undertaking this review and doing that at pace and getting that completed as soon as we can so in effect we can put that issue to bed.The other aspect in regard to conversations around the renewable energy contribution in terms of the broader achievement of targets I am working very closely with the Minister for Energy in regard to the implications of how the renewable programme will contribute to that. That will be a key element of emissions reduction plan two.It is also fair to acknowledge that we will be making more announcements in regard to the broader programme of how we're going to deliver those renewable energy projects soon. That is important because I think we would all acknowledge that we need to ensure that we do have significant renewable generation in order to—Hon Rachel Brooking: Yeah bring back the Spatial Planning Act.Hon SIMON WATTS: —enable sectors—particularly transport and heavy industry—to decarbonise and electrify. Hon Rachel Brooking: And the Natural and Built Environment Act that prioritised it that you repealed.Hon SIMON WATTS: —that is the best mechanism in which the—and I'm looking to forward to more contributions from the member that is providing commentary from the seat in the next call that may come.