Australian environmental report tallies lost land and species

A five-year government report found Australia’s environment continues to deteriorate due to climate change, resource extraction and other causes, prompting leaders to promise new laws.

CANBERRA, Australia — A five-year government report found Australia’s environment continues to deteriorate due to climate change, resource extraction and other causes, prompting leaders on Tuesday to promise new laws and enforcement of them.

The State of the Environment report also adds political pressure on the government to set a more ambitious greenhouse gas reduction target when Parliament resumes next week for the first time since May 21 elections.

The previous conservative government received the report in December but decided against making it public before the elections.

The center-left Labor Party won on pledges including greater action on climate change.

It wants a target to reduce emissions by 43 percent below 2005 by the end of the decade enshrined in law when Parliament sits on July 26.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/australian-environmental-report-tallies-lost-land-species-rcna38841


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