16 SEPTEMBER 2013
Australia’s recent federal election should be remembered as the election that forgot about climate change. Serious action to address climate change was a non-issue for the two big parties and the mainstream media, despite the country experiencing its second-warmest August, second-warmest winter and warmest 12-month period on record.
But just two days before the September 7 poll, the Australian government quietly signed, together with 14 other Pacific nations, the Majuro Declaration for Climate Leadership. The nations said: “Climate change has arrived ... We commit to be climate leaders.”
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Source: Green Left