Despite being a top issue for Australians, climate action has been completely sidelined in favour of the total sham to expand gas and coal
‘If all governments had climate targets matching those of Australia, we’d be heading to at least three degrees of warming, if not four.’‘If all governments had climate targets matching those of Australia, we’d be heading to at least three degrees of warming, if not four.’hat’s been astonishing about the Australian election debates is how they have completely sidelined the terrible disasters inflicted by climate change on our country over the last few years – indeed the past few months.
The Liberal National Coalition now appears to be completely divided on net zero – at a time when the UN secretary general’s, of which I am a member, began discussions on the best way for non-state actors to achieve net zero. The establishment of this group follows very closely on the recently concluded IPCC report that many view as the last warning we’ll get from the scientific community about the need to act before it’s too late to avoid catastrophe.
The Great Barrier Reef is undergoing another major bleaching episode, and scientists studying it are beside themselves with worry – and frustration at the lack of action on climate change, not least from their own government.
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