By 2050, hundreds of thousands of Australian children will face severe and extreme heat that risks their life, their health, and their learning and 7 million children will face more frequent and more intense heat waves.
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Farmers as climate innovators
The impacts of extreme climate events including heat waves, drought and flooding rainfall are causing significant social, economic, and ecological disruptions to global systems of farming and food production.
The summer of climate whiplash
Climate change, driven by the burning of coal, oil, and gas, is supercharging Australia’s weather systems, making them more unpredictable and dangerous than ever before.
King pushing ‘carbon mega bombs’
Spruiking new gas projects before they’ve been fully approved is neither good government or proper process
Finger pointing won’t fix climate crisis, says QCC
These extreme weather events are not isolated incidents; they are the glaring consequences of inaction on climate change. We can no longer afford to ignore the warnings from weather scientists.
SPECIAL REPORT: WETLAND’S FUTURE STILL UP IN THE AIR
The masterplan notes that “residential developments adjacent to airports and under flight paths may lead to complaints about aircraft” and recommends no such developments within the footprint of an airport. Well, too late for that. Unfortunately there don’t appear to be flight path maps in the exhibited document so it’s difficult to know which suburbs (existing and new) will be impacted and to what degree.
Household electrification needed to meet climate targets
The government must urgently support households to electrify their heating, hot water and appliances and install solar and batteries.
Sail 4 Sanity Central Coast Welcome
These men are both retired and in their 70s and look at what they are doing to raise awareness of this massive issue
Coast community inspired to ‘Nail Net Zero’
Four events are planned for the Central Coast and organisers – Climate Future, the Narara Eco Village, The Point ESG News Site, Future Sooner, the Community Environment Network and Rising Tide – are encouraging the whole community to join in.
Farmers for Climate say NSW emissions reductions legislation the right move
Farmers called on the state government to listen to the science and commit to closing Eraring’s coal-fired power station on time.