The Government’s
treatment of climate change in Thursday’s Intergenerational Report should come
under close scrutiny.
If you don’t have a plan for climate change, you don’t have
a plan for the future. A sensible plan will lay out how we can help to avoid
2°C warming and include a decarbonisation pathway to phase down our greenhouse
gas emissions to zero by mid-century.
CEO of the Climate Institute, John Connor, has written on
Reneweconomy about our intergenerational failures; a failure to act on
climate change and so act responsibly for the following generations/
His story: “Failure to act on climate is intergenerational recklessness” discussed the increasingly mainstream calls that are echoing around
the world, although Australia’s political and business leaders have been slow
to act.
