Moderate Liberals urged to break ranks and vote for climate emergency motion

Tim Wilson and Trent Zimmerman are
 among the Liberal MPs to sign up to the
Parliamentary Friends of Climate Action
 group.

The Greens have intensified efforts ahead of the return of federal parliament next week to lobby moderate Liberals to break ranks and vote for a motion declaring a climate emergency.

With parliament set to resume on Monday, the lower house Greens MP Adam Bandt has written to all parliamentarians in the House urging them to support the climate emergency motion, which would be seconded by independent Zali Steggall, and has the support of most of the crossbench.

“Every member of parliament is capable of supporting this motion,” Bandt says in the letter. “It does not condemn the government … nor does it express support for any particular policy position.

“It simply acknowledges the science and calls on the government to take urgent action. This motion is a statement that individual members of parliament recognise the seriousness of the challenge we face.

Read the story from The Guardian by Katharine Murphy - “Moderate Liberals urged to break ranks and vote for climate emergency motion.”