A Unesco recommendation not to declare the Great Barrier Reef be placed on a list of World Heritage sites \u201cin danger\u201d is a triumph of lobbying and spin over science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The recommendation \u2013 to be considered by the World Heritage Committee next month \u2013 goes against a 2022 decision by the IUCN and World Heritage Centre scientific committee, to recommend the reef be placed on the \u201cin danger\u201d list. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greens spokesperson for healthy oceans, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe burning of fossil fuels is literally cooking our oceans and degrading marine ecosystems across the globe, and nowhere else has this been more politicised than on the Great Barrier Reef. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOnly two years ago the IUCN and World Heritage Centre scientific committee recommended the Great Barrier Reef be placed on the \u201cin danger\u201d list largely due to devastating climate impacts. Yet the Australian Government lobbied against this recommendation and has continued to rip open new coal and gas mines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Unesco recommendation not to declare the Great Barrier Reef be placed on a list of World Heritage sites \u201cin danger\u201d is a triumph of lobbying and spin over science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSuccessive governments have lobbied hard and splashed cash on the Great Barrier Reef to buy political cover instead of treating the root cause of this magnificent ecosystem\u2019s decline; which is rising emissions from burning fossil fuels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Albanese government has previously claimed it\u2019s \u2018on track\u2019 to have national climate targets in line with keeping global heating to 1.5C, but we know this is completely disingenuous. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNo amount of conservation efforts to protect the Great Barrier Reef will shield it from the impacts of new coal and gas projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe world will continue to watch the plight of the Great Barrier Reef moving forward, and as a custodian of this great natural wonder the Albanese government should remember this next time it inevitably looks to approve another fossil fuel project.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Unesco recommendation not to declare the Great Barrier Reef be placed on a list of World Heritage sites \u201cin danger\u201d is a triumph of lobbying and spin over science. The recommendation \u2013 to be considered by the World Heritage Committee next month \u2013 goes against a 2022 decision by the IUCN and World Heritage … Continue reading “GREAT BARRIER REEF DECISION A TRIUMPH OF SPIN OVER SCIENCE”<\/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-27429","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\/27429","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=27429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27430,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27429\/revisions\/27430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}