Climate Council says too many leaders are silent on global heating’s role in ‘megafloods’
by Daniel Hurst from Environment | The Guardian on (#5WTB7)
Organisation urges all political parties to outline concrete steps on how to prepare for inevitable climate-fuelled disasters
The Climate Council has issued a pre-election call for all Australian political parties to acknowledge the climate crisis is driving worsening disasters, including the megafloods" in Queensland and New South Wales.
The Australian Industry Group also declared on Monday that Australia's former competitive advantage in carbon-intensive energy was gone" and the country needed coherent and efficient action" to build a new advantage in clean energy.
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