Chris Bowen tells COP27 Australia is back to tackle climate change

Chris Bowen says Australia will work on the world stage to help tackle the issue of climate change.

New Daily
Nov 15 2022

Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen has used his speech to the COP27 summit to declare Australia is ready to work on the world stage to tackle the issue.   :)

Speaking at the annual climate summit in Cairo on Tuesday, Mr Bowen said the government’s emissions targets were only the start of what was needed to deal with climate change.

“Australia is back as a constructive, positive and willing climate collaborator,” he said.

“Unfortunately, we know the story our region will tell if the world fails to act, from island communities fighting for their existence, to towns and cities battling even more frequent bushfires and floods.”

Mr Bowen is leading an Australian delegation at the summit, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese not attending the event because he is at the G20 summit in Bali.

Australia’s presence at COP27 is the first since the change of federal government, with laws enshrining a 43 per cent emissions reduction target by 2030.

The government has also pledged to get to net-zero emissions by 2050.

The laws enshrined an annual report delivered to parliament on how the government is tracking against its climate goals, which the minister said would be delivered in coming weeks.

However, Mr Bowen said more work was needed to be done.

“Setting targets is just the beginning, they are easier set than met,” he said in the speech.

“Just as this COP is focusing on implementation, the Australian government is focusing on real emissions reduction.”

Australia and Pacific nations have launched a bid to host the COP summit in 2026. 

Mr Bowen used his speech to also outline the threats being faced by Pacific nations on climate change.

The summit has discussed whether a compensation fund would be needed for countries that have been more affected by climate disasters.

The climate minister said the world’s banks also had a bigger role to play.

“We have a moral imperative and driving need for our institutions to work with countries across the developed and developing world, not only to reduce emissions but respond to a changing climate and its economic impact on nations,” Mr Bowen said.

“This will mean increasing the proportion of funding spent on climate, but also ensuring that such funding doesn’t saddle developing countries with unsustainable debt.”   :)

Blackouts should see our emissions drop a little bit.  :-/

Could our contribution of less than 2% of Global emissions make a real difference?

Tune in in 2050 to find out.  ;)

whiteknight wrote on Nov 16^th, 2022 at 5:45am:

“Unfortunately, we know the story our region will tell if the world fails to act, from island communities fighting for their existence, to towns and cities battling even more frequent bushfires and floods.”

He is so funny. ;D ;D ;D

Island communities land size increasing. Population rise 300% in the Torres Strait Islands. Bigger water drawdown and you get salt water intrusion.  And they use diesel for power. Perhaps they need to go back to their dreamin' time and subsist. And of course that edumacation thing is so not them. All on the back of the "evil" fossil fuel. ::)

And having given away all the taxpayers money to appease a non-existent boogeyman Bowen will then leap back into his private aircraft and return home with his personal carbon footprint the size of an elephant.  ::)

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Laura Norder




Climate activist who blocked traffic on Sydney Harbour Bridge jailed for at least eight months
:'( :'(


Magistrate Allison Hawkins in Sydney’s Downing Centre local court on Friday sentenced Deanna “Violet” Coco to prison for her role in the climate protest on 13 April this year, when the now 32-year-old parked a truck and stood holding a lit flare.

Coco had pleaded guilty to seven charges including using or modifying an authorised explosive not as prescribed and resisting a police offer during arrest. She was also fined $2,500.  Her protest blocked one of the bridge’s five city-bound lanes during the morning peak for about 25 minutes, before police removed her and others.  The activist will appeal against the sentence. She was refused bail on Friday and will remain in custody until her appeal hearing in March.