The bushfires we are facing are unprecedented. The fires are likely to impact more hectares than at any point in our history, the smoke blanketing Sydney is the worst in living memory and the conditions on the ground have rarely been so bad so early in the fire season.
But we also need to look at the causes of these bushfires so we can avoid this bushfire season repeating itself in the future. That includes addressing climate change.These fires are not an isolated event. We are going through the worst drought in the state’s history. Last year was the hottest year on record and this year is on track to be the second hottest.
The NSW Liberal-National government has been a leader on this issue. We were one of the first jurisdictions to set a net zero carbon-emissions target – before Britain, Germany or France; we are reducing our emissions faster than the national average; and we are developing Australia’s first co-ordinated renewable energy zone.
More than 60 counties have committed to net zero by 2050. The global transition to net zero is going to require trillions of dollars of investment in the energy system alone. We need to capture a slice of that opportunity here in NSW.
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Matt_KeanMP Another prophetic forecast... How many Elvis choppers would $50 billion spent on useless Submarines go.... Bush fire threat is a real and present danger, are the submarines protecting us from something more imminent ? AustraliaFires auspoI
Matt_KeanMP Agreed. Yet no matter what climate policy we implement here it won’t change the climate one bit.
PetraAu Matt_KeanMP So the the drought and bushfires have been caused by a colourless odourless gas, of which Australia only emits 1.3% of the world’s output. The CC evangelicals are stark raving nuts.
Matt_KeanMP NotNormal-Coincidences? MSM/Gov PUSH ClimateHOAX Tax$Grab? COMMON LINKClimateActivism UN Climate$Grab ArsonPlots PushPoverty+DestroyEconomy Activists Induce WaterCrisis Amazon FiresClimateActivist NGO's ARRESTED NZ Volcano-NotNormal 👇FACT-EXPOSED
PetraAu Matt_KeanMP He's taken his time to realize this. After Gladys's job eh?
Matt_KeanMP Can we possibly avoid being the Saudi Arabia of anything?
northway_debbie Matt_KeanMP Saw your interview and appreciate your honesty in your acknowledgement of climate change. What a crazy world we live in when one appreciates a statement of honesty about scientific facts. You had the courage to make it and I hope you will never regret doing it.
Matt_KeanMP The Saudi Arabia of clean energy That sounds fine but can we drop the Friday arvo public beheadings and still be able to have a 🍷
Matt_KeanMP Cut our emissions no more immigration or cut childbirth or animal births👍😄
p_hannam Matt_KeanMP Would love to be listening into the flurry of phone calls between LiberalAus and MineralsCouncil right now...
Matt_KeanMP Not in Victoria , prediction fail then 👍
Matt_KeanMP Talk to Tony__Heller and FriendsOScience
Matt_KeanMP Isn’t there anybody in the Prime Ministers close circle who can cut through this self satisfied, smirking, frightened person and find a human being who cares about other human beings and acts like a leader. We need a champion, now.
naturensw Matt_KeanMP Just heard a resident that has been confronting the Mt Gospers fire for many weeks & defending his property from fire, describing hearing the cries of koalas as the fire hits their home. Absolutely gut-wrenching. I just can't bear to think how much our wildlife is suffering 😔🙏
Matt_KeanMP Finally an LNP politician prepared to support climate change and trigger the RWNJ...3,2,1....
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Matt_KeanMP 'worse bushfires'🙄 1938 Black Friday, 3700 buildings, 71 dead 1967 Black Tuesday, 1293 buildings, 62 dead 1983 Ash Wednesday, 2400 buildings, 75 dead 2009 Black Saturday, 4029 buildings, 173 dead 2019 'worse bushfires', 724 buildings, 6 dead
Matt_KeanMP Think these news papers are trying to start a war with all these repetitive headlines.
Matt_KeanMP If we listened to all the experts, we should already be dead and under water.
Matt_KeanMP Matt Kean for Premier. The position is vacant at the moment nswpol
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