The Australian Council for International Development is seeking greater transparency on the billion kina loan Australia has offered to #PNG to assist address its serious budget issues https://t.co/3TaDlRLdyh
Australia is world’s largest exporter of coal and liquefied natural gas - the world’s third-biggest exporter of fossil carbon, after Russia and Saudi Arabia. Plans to increase production by 30percent over next decade will undercut the Paris Agreement.
https://t.co/higDHZpE7t
The recent Public Accounts Committee's revelation of the rort in PNG 's National Dept of Health demonstrates the pervasiveness of corruption that exist across other state institutions. This is genocidal and corruption must now be "securitised" as a matter of national urgency.
Beth is right. If we limit resource use for ecological reasons, capital will pile into speculation, privatization, and rentier "industries" in a desperate attempt to secure returns.
Ecological legislation alone isn't enough. We need to euthanize the growth imperative itself.
To get a sense for how backwards we are on climate policy, consider the fact that people are literally *rewarded* for frequent flying rather than disincentivized from doing so. It's extraordinary.