What has the Turnbull Government done since the euphoria of Paris?

Many argue that even two degrees
is vastly inadequate the world
should be aiming for 1.5 degrees.

Globally there are many well-known names who have raised concerns about climate change: the Pope, Barack Obama, Leonardo DiCaprio, Prince Charles, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Rockefeller Foundation.

In Australia too, a broad range of voices have added their concerns and fears to the debate: firefighters who can no longer protect people or houses as we battle increasingly extreme weather conditions, 90% of Australian youth who last year said climate change was an important issue for them, farmers who see the effects of climate change on their properties every day, doctors who stress the deadly impact of heatwaves on the elderly, very young and those with existing health problems, climate scientists, David Pocock, Cate Blanchett, the tens of thousands of protestors who took to the streets in climate marches held across the country in November 2015 … the list goes on.

A global chorus of voices applauded the historic climate change agreement reached in December 2015 in Paris, including Ban Ki-moon, Francois Hollande and representatives from the nearly 200 countries who took part in the negotiations.

Read The Guardian story - “It's three months since the Paris climate summit. What has Turnbull done?”

(Just last week Clive Hamilton, an Australian author and public intellectual and the Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, which is a joint centre of Charles Sturt University and the University of Melbourne, decried what the Turnbull Government had done since the December conference in Paris.

The Charles Sturt University professor, who is based at the Canberra campus, lamented Australia’s addiction to fossil fuels during a conversation with La Trobe University Professor Robert Manne – Robert McLean.)