Acting prime minister Michael McCormack has agreed Australia must increase its efforts to tackle climate change and says the bushfires gripping NSW and other parts of the country have increased community fears about global warming nswfires auspol
Acting prime minister Michael McCormack has agreed Australia must increase its efforts to tackle climate change and says the bushfires gripping NSW and other parts of the country have increased community fears about global warming.
"The important thing is that we make sure that we've got the proper resourcing and that we fully address these fires as they're occurring ... it's going to be a long, drawn out fire season."Mr McCormack criticised environmental activists who called for an end to coal mining, saying the sector "provides two thirds of our energy needs" and was a $62 billion export industry that provided jobs for tens of thousands of Australians.
"You don't want to get in the way of these professional people doing their job," he said. "I'm doing what I can from where I am ... I've already been there this week." International Energy Agency executive director Fatih Birol's call for Australia to"take steps in line with [its] reputation" as"a responsible country" to reduce its emissions.
Australian Industry Group chief executive Innes Willox said "any rational observer" would conclude that "Australia has not handled climate and energy policy for the past 15 years".
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