Understorey: Greens’ WA Climate Action Plan fills the policy vacuum
COP26 opens in Glasgow in 18 days, with at least 120 world leaders turning up to show their commitment to a transformed world. Our own Prime Minister might even make it. But back home, not since Geoff Gallop’s 2003 State Sustainability Strategy has any Western Australian government offered a climate plan worthy of its name. With Western Australia leading the world in carbon pollution, tomorrow Greens MP Brad Pettitt will introduce a Climate Action Bill in the state parliament, to challenge successive government’s under-ambition. Advised by some of Western Australia’s leading scientists, the former Mayor of Fremantle hopes to pragmatically shake, nudge or coax Labor into investing in the renewable energy revolution. Understorey asks the single Greens’ member in the state parliament for details of his plan. And he’s talking real targets, public accountability, and an independent Climate Experts Panel.
Photo: Brad Pettitt montage, A Glamorgan
