Media Release
Mark Butler MP
Shadow Minister for Environment
Climate Change and Water
UNESCO has released a report on climate change and world heritage sites and there is one glaring omission – Australia.
Malcolm Turnbull is trying to bury the existence of climate change by getting the Environment Department to stop Australia being mentioned in the report on the impact of global warming on World Heritage Areas.
Report after report, expert after expert, tells us that the biggest threat to the Great Barrier Reef is climate change.
How could UNESCO miss this? They didn’t. The Government made sure it was left out.
The Great Barrier Reef needs strong leadership and strong action on climate change.
This is one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World and we have a responsibility to act to restore its health and resilience.
What we don’t need is a government that won’t act on climate change and won’t allocate any new funds to protect the reef.
The best way to help the reef and to boost tourism and economic growth is to take serious action on climate change, to face the challenge and show leadership.
Hiding from the problem will do nothing but damage the reef further.
Malcom Turnbull needs to front up and tell us exactly what he has done to hide the truth and why.
Labor has a serious plan for tackling climate change. Under the last Labor Government emissions fell, but they are up under the Liberals’ useless, expensive Direct Action policy.
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