SYDNEY - The agency that manages the Great Barrier Reef broke ranks with Australia's conservative government to call for the"strongest and fastest possible action" against climate change to save the world heritage marine wonder.
Rising sea temperatures linked to climate change have killed off large areas of coral in the 2,300km reef, a UN-listed World Heritage site, that suffered back-to-back coral bleaching in 2016 and 2017. It has refused to enshrine emission reduction targets agreed to under the Paris climate accords in its formal energy policy and experts question whether it can meet its commitment to cut greenhouse gas output by at least 26 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.
"Further loss of coral is inevitable and can be minimised by limiting global temperature increase to the maximum extent possible," it said.
Source: Energy Industry News (energyindustrynews.net)
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