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| ACT climate minister Shane Rattenbury (right) with Tim Flannery from the Climate Council. |
The ACT has become the first Australian state or territory to make a formal declaration of a climate change emergency, passing a motion proposed by ACT climate minister Shane Rattenbury.
The passage of the motion in the ACT Legislative Assembly follows similar declarations made in the UK and Ireland.
The text of the motion cited the extreme temperatures that were observed in the ACT over the last summer, which experienced its warmest summer on record, and the impacts of bushfires and flooding in Queensland and Tasmania.
Read the story from RenewEconomy by Michael Mazengarb - “ACT declares climate change emergency – slams federal government failure to act.”
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