Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00153:section:3
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3  Objects
  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.