Australia must strengthen environmental laws, backed up by real investment, if it is to heed the recommendations of last week\u2019s UN Biodiversity Conference in Egypt.
\n\u201cThe Senate has heard the UN\u2019s clear signal to the world that our planet is in the midst of an extinction crisis,\u201d Greens environment spokesperson Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said.
\n\u201cThe Government must listen to the experts who say we are at a tipping point in protecting the environment and our biodiversity, not put their heads in the sand. We need environmental laws with teeth, backed by real funding, if we want to be part of a global solution.
\n\u201cThe World Wildlife Fund has called out Australia as one of the worst biodiversity managers on the planet. We have a responsibility to our unique flora and fauna, to reverse this harrowing trend of extinction.
\n\u201cAustralia would fail to explain to future generations and the rest of the world, if the koala was driven to extinction. We have the golden opportunity to be the generation that saves the planet and the myriad species that live here.
\n\u201cThe Greens are fighting for urgent action on climate change, and to protect our environment and biodiversity, while the Morrison Government further abandons the environment.\u201d
\nSenator Sarah Hanson-Young\u2019s motion, below, passed the Senate this afternoon.<\/p>\n
That the Senate\u2014 notes that<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The 14th<\/sup>\u00a0United Nations\u00a0Convention on Biological Diversity Conference of the Parties (the Conference)\u00a0took place in Egypt from the 13th<\/sup>\u00a0to the 29th<\/sup>\u00a0of November 2018.<\/p>\n 2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The United Nations Report to the Conference demonstrated that Australia is failing to meet international targets, especially in parts of the country where land clearing and habitat destruction are widespread.<\/p>\n 3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The World Wildlife Fund also issued a report as part of the Conference that placed Australia amongst the worst performers on biodiversity in a group of 100 nations.<\/p>\n 4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Conference called on governments to scale up investments in nature and people towards 2020 and beyond and to accelerate action to achieve Aichi Biodiversity Targets by 2020.<\/p>\n \u00a0Calls on the government heed the recommendations of the Conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Australia must strengthen environmental laws, backed up by real investment, if it is to heed the recommendations of last week\u2019s UN Biodiversity Conference in Egypt. \u201cThe Senate has heard the UN\u2019s clear signal to the world that our planet is in the midst of an extinction crisis,\u201d Greens environment spokesperson Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said. \u201cThe … Continue reading “Senate backs Greens call for serious action on biodiversity management”<\/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-912","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\/912","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=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}