That the Senate—

(a) notes:

(i) the formation of Greenfleet, a not for profit organisation that aims to offset the environmental impact of passen-ger car use by planting native trees to offset carbon dioxide emissions and to promote fuel efficiency tech-nologies,

(ii) that consumers can render their cars `carbon neutral' by subscribing $30 a year to Greenfleet to plant trees in an area of environmental concern, such as the Murray-Darling Basin, the Snowy River catchment area and the Ovens River catchment, and

(iii) that each year the average Australian car uses 1 920 litres of fuel, travels 16 000 kilometres and emits 4.33 tonnes of carbon dioxide;

(b) welcomes:

(i) the appointment to the Greenfleet board of directors of Dr Brian Robinson, formerly head of the Vic-torian Environment Protection Auth-ority, Dr Graeme Pearman, head of Commonwealth Scientific Industrial and Research Organisation atmosp-heric research and Professor Allan Rodger, former director of sustaina-bility at Deakin University, and

(ii) the introduction of Greenfleet as an affordable, empowering tool for consumers to help the environment;

(c) congratulates Greenfleet on its projects to date, which include production of a guide to auto parts recycling; tree planting in Victoria's Killawarra Iron-bark Forest using volunteer labour, help-ing to restore the habitat of the endan-gered regent honeyeater; and the Avon Richardson catchment project to revege-tate this area in north western Victoria, which suffers from salinity, soil erosion, loss of topsoil and poor water quality; and

(d) urges the Government to subscribe to Greenfleet to offset emissions arising from Commonwealth fleet cars.