Climate summit calls for urgent action after Australia's fire-hit summer

The megafires of Australia’s summer “are a harbinger of life and death on a hotter Earth”, a climate summit has said in a forceful declaration for urgent and dramatic climate action.

A firefighter near Potato Point on NSW south coast on 23 January.
A Climate Emergency Summit held in Melbourne this weekend
has called the bushfire crisis a ‘harbinger of life and death
 on a hotter earth’.

The Climate Emergency Summit, held in Melbourne this week and of which Guardian Australia was a partner, released a declaration saying the warming world was a clear threat to Australian society and civilisation.

“The climate is already dangerous – in Australia and the Antarctic, in Asia and the Pacific – right around the world. The Earth is unacceptably too hot now,” the declaration said.

Read the story from The Guardian by Ben Doherty - “Climate summit calls for urgent action after Australia's fire-hit summer.”