Great Barrier Reef: plan to improve water quality ignores scientific advice

Australian government's draft Reef 2050 Water Quality Improvement Plan provides new water quality targets, but has very few other concrete changes

Australia's draft plan to improve water quality on the Great Barrier Reef has ignored official government scientific advice, which was published by the Queensland and federal governments alongside the new plan this week.

The draft Reef 2050 Water Quality Improvement Plan is an update to the plan released in 2013, and provides new water quality targets for specific parts of the reef but has very few other concrete changes overall.