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PROJECT
RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE
LOCAL RESPONSE --
PROTESTORS FROM THE SCHOOL CLIMATE STRIKE (2019)
LOCAL + NATIONAL ACTION --
- SYDNEY CLIMATE PROTEST (2019) - after months of bushfires and hazardous smoke in NSW and Queensland, more than 30,000 individuals took action.
- SCHOOL CLIMATE STRIKE (September 2019) - more than 80,000 individuals, and many children + students took to the streets of Sydney to protest the governments lack of response to Climate Action.
- CLIMATE PROTEST (January 2020) - more than 30,000 protestors took to Town Hall to push for Climate Change within the Australian government.
LOCAL + NATIONAL REPONSE --
- Australia has set a target for 2030 of making a 26-28% reduction in its emissions compared with 2005 levels.
- The Australian government is continuing to back the coal + mining industry for the role it plays in the economy.
- NSW Environment Minister Matt Kean, acknowledges that the fires in Australia were "not normal" and that "we need to reduce out carbon emissions immediately."
- Scott Morrison has taken the view that saying he believes in climate change is enough to avoid any suggestion that he is in fact a climate change denier.
A FEDERAL CALL OUT --
Australian protestors called for the Federal Government to commit to:
- No new coal, oil or gas projects.
- 100% renewable energy generation and exports by 2030.
- Funding for "a just transition and job creation for all fossil fuel industry workers and communities."
SYDNEY BUSHFIRES 2019
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