Originally posted on 19 February 2020
The Democrats today signed on to the Safe Climate Declaration and joined the call for Australia’s climate emergency transition.
The National Climate Energy Summit, held in Melbourne on 14-15 February, initiated the declaration and the following call to action, saying it is in Australia’s self-interest to demand far greater global action on climate change, and to lead by acting itself.
“It makes no sense to build our economy on fossil fuel resources, practices and technologies which are unsustainable, particularly when Australia has sonme of the best clean energy resources and opportunities in the world.”
This requires leadership which understands the challenge and the opportunities, and is totally committed to accelerating the emergency transition to a safe climate economy. This will not happen with leaders who do not even accept climate change as a priority.
As a signatory, we have agreed to:
See here for more on this and to sign on yourself.
