Australian businesses call for climate crisis and virus economic recovery to be tackled together
by Adam Morton Environment editor from Environment | The Guardian on (#5316M)
Innes Willox, chief executive of the Australia Industry Group, says Covid-19 and climate are urgent' challenges that overlap
A leading Australian business group is calling for the two biggest economic challenges in memory - recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic and cutting greenhouse gas emissions - to be addressed together, saying it would boost growth and put the country on a firm long-term footing.
Innes Willox, chief executive of the Australian Industry Group, representing more than 60,000 businesses, says economic recovery from the virus and the transition required to meet net-zero emissions by 2050 are overlapping issues that should be taken on together.
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