A Labor government in NSW would expand national parks to protect koalas, curb feral horses, and step up climate change action including setting a target to source half the state's electricity from renewables by 2030 | p_hannam
The gathering would inform a Climate Change Act to drive the transition, including the setting of interim goals for 2025, Labor said in a statement.Nick Moir
Labor would oppose plans by the Berejiklian government to raise the Warragamba Dam wall that would flood some 50 square kilometres of the Blue Mountains World Heritage National Park, and would renegotiate the purchase of the Radiata Plateau to fold into the park. Environment Minister Gabrielle Upton, though, dismissed the proposals as Labor's "latest round of recycled environmental announcements". These fell short of the government's achievements including the range of programs paid for by the $1.4 billion Climate Change Fund.
Environmental groups applauded the ALP's plan to expand protected regions and reverse loosened land-clearing laws that anecdotal evidence suggests has led to a rise in vegetation loss. The government hasn't released land-clearing figures for years. "The crisis faced by nature in NSW requires an immediate moratorium on destruction of koala forests and other threatened species habitat, and a rapid end to logging of our public native forests."
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