Morrison government urged to cut emissions to tackle root cause of worsening bushfires

Former fire chiefs call for no new coal or gas' after royal commission found climate change fuelled the black summer bushfires

Australia's summer bushfires were fuelled by climate change and governments must respond to the royal commission into the disaster with tougher policies to reduce emissions, including no new coal or gas", former fire chiefs have said.

Craig Lapsley, a former Victorian emergency management commissioner, said the $10bn cost of the bushfire disaster laid out in the report was staggering".