{"id":22033,"date":"2023-07-29T01:02:33","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T01:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=22033"},"modified":"2023-07-29T01:02:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T01:02:33","slug":"labor-must-heed-un-climate-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/07\/29\/labor-must-heed-un-climate-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"LABOR MUST HEED UN CLIMATE WARNING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As the extreme climate\u00a0crisis cooks the planet, Greens Acting Leader Mehreen Faruqi has called on the Prime Minister and the Labor government to heed the UN\u2019s warning and show global leadership by committing to no more coal and gas.<br><br>Fires and extreme heat waves are ravaging the Northern Hemisphere, as the UN and the World Meteorological Organisation warns July will be the hottest on record and describes the situation as \u201cglobal boiling.\u201d<br><br><strong>Greens Acting Leader Senator Mehreen Faruqi said:<\/strong><br><br>\u201cCoal and gas is fueling this extreme climate crisis and Australia is one of the biggest exporters of fossil fuels. Labor must show global leadership and act now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Prime Minister and Labor must stop approving new coal and gas projects and push for the world to do the same.<br><br>\u201cGreens pressure has got some climate action, but we need much much more and Labor is making the climate crisis worse with Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek approving one climate bomb after another with no signs of slowing down.<br><br>\u201cWhat we are seeing in the Northern Hemisphere will hit Australia this summer and people will ask what did the Prime Minister and Labor do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cClimate scientists, the UN and the International Energy Agency have all issued unambiguously apocalyptic climate warnings, and still, this year Labor approved three new coal projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere is no room for new coal and gas if we want a liveable planet. The only forces that want new fossil fuels are the climate-wrecking, morally bankrupt fossil fuel corporations, and they\u2019ve got both Labor and the Liberals doing their bidding.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the extreme climate\u00a0crisis cooks the planet, Greens Acting Leader Mehreen Faruqi has called on the Prime Minister and the Labor government to heed the UN\u2019s warning and show global leadership by committing to no more coal and gas. Fires and extreme heat waves are ravaging the Northern Hemisphere, as the UN and the World &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/07\/29\/labor-must-heed-un-climate-warning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LABOR MUST HEED UN CLIMATE WARNING&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22034,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22033\/revisions\/22034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}