Podcast from The Guardian
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Year after year, parts of our country are destroyed by floods and bushfires made worse by global heating. And yet multiple prime ministers have lost their jobs when they tried to do something about it. What’s behind Australia’s weak climate targets and its lack of ambition?
In part four, we explore the powerful fossil fuel lobbies and how have they influenced Australia’s climate policy over the decades.
Including: author Clive Hamilton, former Australian Greens leader Christine Milne, former minister for climate change Greg Combet, Guardian editor Lenore Taylor, director of policy at the Investor Group on Climate Change Erwin Jackson, scientist Graeme Pearman, and Union of Concerned Scientists member Alden Meyer.
- Listen to Australia v the climate part 1: Kyoto here or in your Full Story feed
- Listen to Australia v the climate part 2: Copenhagen here or in your Full Story feed
- Listen to Australia v the climate part 3: Paris and the fall here or in your Full Story feed
Billed as the world’s “best, last chance” to get global heating under control, Cop26 has a big goal: to secure global net zero emissions by 2050 and keep 1.5C within reach.
Australia’s climate report card is poor, following decades of political squabbling, policy failures, leadership coups, climate scepticism and poor planning. And yet most Australians have a lived experience of the worsening climate crisis – devastating bushfires, floods, extreme weather and loss of species and habitat.
Australia v the climate looks at how we got here, what has gone wrong, and what can be done to change course.
Illustration: Ben Sanders/The Guardian
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