In the Climate Change Action Plan, you committed to developing a whole‑of‑government policy framework to embed climate change into government decision-making by mid-2024.
Why do you think it's appropriate to have an industrial approach to managing climate change?
The Liberal Government has released another State Budget that prioritises a billion-dollar stadium spend ahead of services for people, and action on the environment and climate challenges.
Deputy Speaker, I thank the member for Braddon for bringing this motion on. It is an important motion and an opportunity to discuss and reflect upon the last few weeks and TasNetworks' response to it.
Deputy Speaker, I thank the member for Lyons for raising this important matter this morning. Climate change is real, climate change is here and it is impacting people now. It is not some far‑off distant event that we have time to prepare for. We must be preparing now.
We have seen extreme weather events over the past fortnight, lived through by all Tasmanians. We know these events are only going to increase, both in frequency and in severity.
The fire seasons are becoming closer together and more intense. This summer, given we have just been through the hottest year in recorded history in Australia, is going to be extreme.
A climate risk assessment which, as you have described, is quite a technical document, and a disaster resilience strategy, which would be a more public document.
They were actually set aside under the Tasmanian Forest Agreement because of their high conservation value.
Do you recognise that logging and burning native forests has a negative impact on the climate?