Press Releases
Australian businesses call for climate crisis and virus economic recovery to be tackled together
May 05, 2020
The Guardian
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.
Australia listened to the experts on coronavirus. It’s time we heard them on climate change
May 02, 2020
The Sydney Morning Herald
Economic reconstruction is a chance to speed up decarbonisation, and the pandemic has shown a different kind of politics is possible. We’re already being swamped with ideas about “reforms” needed to recover from the pandemic crisis. But the word reform is like gift wrap – a handy cove
Coronavirus is a dress rehearsal for what awaits us if governments continue to ignore science
Apr 22, 2020
The Guardian
The coronavirus pandemic should be seen as a dress rehearsal for what awaits us if we continue to ignore the laws of science, the physical world and the demands of several catastrophic threats such as climate change.
NSW fire survivors take EPA to court in push to force action on climate change
Apr 20, 2020
ABCNews
Bushfire survivors have launched legal action to try and force the New South Wales Environmental Protection Agency to develop a climate change policy.