Senate Environment and Communications Legislation Committee (part 3 of 3)
26 May 2026
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Senate Environment and Communications Legislation Committee Australian Parliament
00:00 - 00:59
Speaker 18
Emissions reduction opportunities across the economy, including, through land based sequestration and in agriculture. And, it, showed what the... What it would look like for the economy. To your point earlier about what does it do for GDP and GDP per capita, the GDP growth was unaffected by the decarbonization of the economy. The, from memory, the economy continued to grow at a 2.7% per annum growth rate, whilst the economy decarbonized, including through enhanced sequestration across the landscape, and CSIRO modeling as well as other work that the authorities drawn on and is is published by agencies such as, ABARES, Ernst and Young, and other sources, shows that that can be done whilst, agriculture sustains and indeed increases its production and, increases its output.
00:59 - 01:03
Speaker 38
Will you provide us with the title of that CSIRO study?
01:03 - 01:11
Speaker 18
The CSIRO report is directly quoted in the authority's advice to the government on the 2035 target and it's available on the CSIRO website. We're very happy to table
01:11 - 01:12
Thank you.
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