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Each of these with their own fees and procurement, design process and structure.
To make significant changes of the sort we need, the challenges of these sectors need to be addressed using the very best of systems thinking.
In recognition that I’m not an expert on the detail, my colleague Ken Allison is here to help in the discussion.
But, I do know that we are not keeping pace with the acceleration of climate change.
I hope we can discover what the barriers are to our shared objectives, and you can tell me what we might say to Government about how to collectively overcome them.
The world has been on destructive trajectory to date with the Climate Crisis being the uppermost long-term risk in the 2021 WEF Global Risk Register, writes the author. (iStock)
The Year of the Ox is characterised by diligence, dependability, determination and strength, which are the attributes required to build on these pillars toward a landmark year in the quest for a low carbon green sustainable and equitable future, writes
Dhesigen Naidoo.
We have ushered in the Year of the Ox and have said goodbye to the Year of the Rat (masked).
But, as challenging as last year was, the end of the King Rat s lunar year was definitely one of the more dramatic Januarys in recent history.
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Not just climate adaptation, but genuine transformation
The Australian government has been in the news this month for two seemingly contradictory policy responses to climate change. First, on 26 January, the Hon Sussan Ley, Minister for the Environment, attended the (first of its kind) Global Climate Adaptation Summit and committed Australia to join the global Call for Action on Raising Ambition for Climate Adaptation and Resilience, to developing a new National Climate Resilience and Adaptation Strategy, and pledged new climate finance of at least $1.5 billion over the next five years.
In apparent contrast to these new commitments, Australia’s recent update to its Nationally Determined Commitment (NDC) under the UNFCCC Paris Agreement made no increase to already mitigated ambition, sticking with the current paltry target of reducing emissions by 26 to 28 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030. A target that is shockingly unambitious. Doubling down on this lack of ambition,