The United Nation’s cultural and scientific body, UNESCO, has warned Australia must do more on land clearing and climate change if it wants to save the Great Barrier Reef.
While the World-Heritage-listed reef has been left off the in-danger list for now, UNESCO says the Reef faces its fifth mass bleaching event in eight years.
“The state party should be urged to set more ambitious emission reduction targets consistent with limiting global temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels,” UNESCO said in a draft decision on June 25.
“It is clear that the property remains under serious threat, and urgent and sustained action is of utmost priority in order to improve the resilience of the property in a rapidly changing climate.”...
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