ACRS letter to PM Malcolm turnbull requesting immediate action to reduce carbon emissions to protect the GBR
The past three years have seen the worst mass coral bleaching in history occurring across the globe. For the first time we have seen back-to-back bleaching events on the Great Barrier Reef resulting in the loss of more than half of shallow-water corals. The devastating damage from climate change is irrefutable, and will be exacerbated if the proposed mines in the Galilee Basin go ahead; they alone would become the world’s biggest and most harmful sources of atmospheric pollution. These impacts
directly threaten Australia’s responsibilities for stewardship of the Great Barrier Reef under the
World Heritage Convention.
It is not too late to step up action to reduce carbon emissions in line with the Paris Agreement (COP21), but we must act now.
