{"id":26174,"date":"2024-04-17T03:59:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T03:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=26174"},"modified":"2024-04-17T03:59:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T03:59:22","slug":"political-action-only-saviour-for-great-barrier-reef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/04\/17\/political-action-only-saviour-for-great-barrier-reef\/","title":{"rendered":"POLITICAL ACTION ONLY SAVIOUR FOR GREAT BARRIER REEF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.noaa.gov\/news-release\/noaa-confirms-4th-global-coral-bleaching-event\"><u>declaration of a fourth global coral bleaching event<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;reaffirms only the strongest political action on climate change and environmental law reform can secure a future for the Great Barrier Reef \u2013 which is now 75% bleached.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Greens spokesperson for healthy oceans, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTransformative action to reverse climate change impacts on the world\u2019s reefs has been possible, but political will and determination has let us down \u2013 including by successive Australian governments.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn recent weeks the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority quietly released data showing a shocking 75% of the Great Barrier Reef is now bleached, caused by extreme ocean warming from the burning of fossil fuels.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe world is now watching, we can\u2019t continue to monitor the Great Barrier Reef to its death. Our government must take a leadership role in protecting the Reef by increasing Australia\u2019s climate ambition and improving our broken environment laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFrustratingly, Labor appears satisfied with a weak climate target that is consistent with degrading 99 per cent of the world\u2019s coral reefs, and is failing to show meaningful accountability for breaking its election promise to deliver comprehensive environmental law reform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t acknowledge climate change is the biggest threat to our marine ecosystems on one hand, and on the other rip open new coal and gas projects that are cooking our oceans. It\u2019s completely disingenuous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo long as Labor is beholden to vested interests and big corporations, Australia will never get the climate action or environmental protection it needs to save the Great Barrier Reef from being annihilated by political stupidity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s&nbsp;declaration of a fourth global coral bleaching event&nbsp;reaffirms only the strongest political action on climate change and environmental law reform can secure a future for the Great Barrier Reef \u2013 which is now 75% bleached. Greens spokesperson for healthy oceans, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson:\u00a0 \u201cTransformative action to reverse climate change impacts on the world\u2019s reefs has &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/04\/17\/political-action-only-saviour-for-great-barrier-reef\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;POLITICAL ACTION ONLY SAVIOUR FOR GREAT BARRIER REEF&#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-26174","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\/26174","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=26174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26175,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26174\/revisions\/26175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}