RACGP backs duty of care bill for climate change harms

RACGP backs duty of care bill for climate change harms. Australia’s largest representative body for GPs has thrown its support behind a duty of care bill requiring the Federal Government to protect young people from climate change harms in decision-making.

In the lead up to COP28 Conference in Dubai, a new report by UK and Australian academics reveals that coal, oil and gas exports from Australia, Canada, Norway and the USA amount to 11 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions in 2020 – which dwarf their domestic emission (except for the US) – and argues that they must take responsibility for reducing their export emissions for any hope of keeping global temperatures below 1.5 degrees C.

Farmers For Climate Action has backed farmers opposing a carbon capture and storage project which aims to inject coal mine waste into Australia’s biggest underground water source.

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RACGP backs duty of care bill for climate change harms
Australia’s largest representative body for GPs has thrown its support behind a duty of care bill requiring the Federal Government to protect young people from climate change harms in decision-making.

The scandal of a free pass on fossil fuel export emissions by Australia, Canada, Norway and USA must end to save our climate - new report
In the lead up to COP28 Conference in Dubai, a new report by UK and Australian academics reveals that coal, oil and gas exports from Australia, Canada, Norway and the USA amount to 11 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions in 2020 – which dwarf their domestic emission (except for the US) – and argues that they must take responsibility for reducing their export emissions for any hope of keeping global temperatures below 1.5 degrees C.

Farmers for Climate Action opposes coal waste injection into Australia's largest underground water supply
Farmers For Climate Action has backed farmers opposing a carbon capture and storage project which aims to inject coal mine waste into Australia’s biggest underground water source.

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