A five-year government report found Australia's environment continues to deteriorate due to climate change, resource extraction and other causes, prompting leaders on Tuesday to promise new laws and enforcement of them.
The previous conservative government received the report in December but decided against making it public before the elections.It wants a target to reduce emissions by 43% below 2005 by the end of the decade enshrined in law when Parliament sits on July 26.
"On the 43% target, we made a promise to the Australian people. We're going to keep the promise we made to the Australian people," Plibersek told the National Press Club. The government will also set a target of having 30% of Australia's land and surrounding sea declared protected areas. It wants to create an east Antarctic marine park.
The wide-ranging report found the number of Australian species listed as threatened had increased by 8% since the 2016 report.
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