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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Environment
Graham Readfearn

Australia ‘on track’ with climate targets needed to protect Great Barrier Reef, Labor tells Unesco

File photo of life on the Great Barrier Reef
Australia says its climate targets are in line with keeping global heating to 1.5C in a report to Unesco on efforts to protect the Great Barrier Reef. Photograph: Matt Curnock/James Cook University/AFP/Getty Images

The Albanese government has claimed it is “on track” to have national climate targets that would be in line with keeping global heating to 1.5C in a report to Unesco on efforts to protect the Great Barrier Reef.

The federal and Queensland governments are trying to convince Unesco not to recommend the world’s biggest coral reef system be placed on a list of world heritage sites in danger – with a decision due at a meeting in India in July.

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