{"id":3481,"date":"2019-12-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climatenetwork.org\/2019\/12\/02\/voices-from-the-front-lines-2\/"},"modified":"2019-12-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T00:00:00","slug":"voices-from-the-front-lines-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatenetwork.org\/2019\/12\/02\/voices-from-the-front-lines-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Voices from the Front Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia burned this spring. Not the regular
\nfires that the country sees every year at the height of summer, but a
\nconflagration. These were fires so hot they started their own
\nthunderstorms, with associated lightning starting yet
\nmore fires<\/a>. At one point, the combined fire front was 6,000 kilometres long.
\nIf you drove from Bonn to Madrid, back to Bonn and then returned to Madrid
\nagain, you’d still be almost 700km shy of the length of the front. So far six people have died<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Vast swathes of national parks,
\nfarmland and ecosystems have been destroyed. An estimated 1,000 koalas have
\ndied. Rainforests – places once described as “permanently wet” – burnt for the
\nfirst time. More than 500 homes were lost. And it’s not even summer yet.<\/p>\n

Bushfires of this scale are
\nunprecedented in spring. Driven by increasingly hot days and one of the most
\nextreme droughts ever recorded, now in its 36th month, the realities of climate
\nchange have arrived for the Australian people, flora and fauna.<\/p>\n

The impacts go beyond the
\ndirect threat to lives, farms and businesses. Smoke from the fires has seen the
\nair quality in Sydney the worst in the world in November .The threat to health
\nled to dozens of schools being closed, a hospital evacuated, and more than
\ntwice the usual number of presentations to emergency departments for asthma and
\nbreathing difficulties. <\/p>\n

Black carbon particles with the smoke plume were lofted
\n12-13km and were tracked by NASA<\/a> across the
\nPacific, across South America and even detected above the southern Atlantic
\nOcean. ECO thinks Australia needs to act on climate to stop spreading smoke
\npollution particles to other nations along with its climate damaging greenhouse
\npollution (Cough Cough).<\/p>\n

This is what “loss and damage” due
\nto climate change looks like in nations like Australia. But will it change the
\nstance of the Australian Government? ECO believes there is an urgent need to
\nset up a financing facility under the Warsaw International Mechanism to deliver
\nnew and additional finance to address loss and damage in developing countries,
\nwho cannot rebuild as Australia can. This should include new and innovative
\nsources of finance to generate additional resources (such as levies on air and
\nmaritime transport, and climate damages tax on fossil fuels) at a scale of
\n$US50billion by 2022. The Australian delegation has undoubtedly seen the damage
\ndone by climate change in their very own backyards, surely it is not a stretch
\nfor them to support the delivery of very real support for their Pacific
\nneighbours?<\/p>\n

This year, the Australian
\ndelegation will be led by their Energy Minister Angus Taylor, whose record of
\ninaction on climate change speaks for itself. Australians need action on
\nclimate change urgently, with the height of summer yet to come. ECO calls on Mr
\nTaylor to stop his political point scoring and instead to deliver real and
\nmeaningful action on climate change, restart Australia’s contribution to the
\nGCF and support serious action on loss and damage. Australia has a burning need
\nfor it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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