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Please take urgent action on climate change
Dear Prime Minister, The climate emergency is a human rights crisis of unprecedented proportions. It is already wreaking havoc on the lives of millions of people, deepening inequalities and discrimination and threatening the enjoyment of most of our rights and the future of humanity. 2021 is a crucial year in the global fight to tackle climate change. Australia’s existing climate plans are in no way ambitious enough to achieve the reduction in global carbon emissions that is needed to protect the planet and the human rights of all from the most dangerous impacts of climate change. This is not just a moral failure to act on the crisis at our door, but a failure of our government to meet its obligations under human rights and environmental law. Australia now stands alone among comparable wealthy nations in failing to strengthen its climate targets. Australia must do our fair share to fully and urgently address the climate crisis. Our failure to do so may well be one of the biggest inter-generational human rights violations in history. As governments prepare for COP26, I urge the Australian Government to: 1) Adopt and implement the most ambitious emission reduction targets possible that would enable us to reduce emissions by half well before 2030 and reach zero carbon emissions by 2030 or as soon as feasible after that while ensuring a just transition that enhances human rights; 2) Phase out fossil fuels and shift to renewable energy produced consistently with human rights by 2030 or as soon as possible after that; end the production and use of most polluting fossil fuels and forms of production as soon as possible and no later than 2030, and end fossil fuel subsidies immediately; 3) Adopt and implement human rights-consistent adaptation measures and ensure these adaptation measures give priority to the most marginalised groups, communities and individuals, and seek to be informed by the traditional knowledge of Indigenous Peoples and other local communities; 4) Ensure that measures intended to protect people from the effects of climate change do not result in the violation of other human rights; 5) Significantly increase funding for human rights-consistent climate initiatives in less wealthy countries, including for loss and damage.
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