Climate of chaos: the suffocating firestorm engulfing Australia
The US, Japan, and Australia let the whole world down at the UN climate talks
The Climate Council’s Will Steffen, a climate scientist, labelled Australia’s performance at COP 25 “disgusting”.
“Our government is failing in terms of a lack of leadership, a lack of plans and resolve,” he told SBS News.
On Friday, firefighters were battling more than 200 fires across five states as a heatwave engulfing the country pushed temperatures in the south into the mid-40s, and Sydney and other centres were enveloped in a smoke that health professionals warned had been at hazardous levels for nearly a month. Strong winds pushed the smoke 900km south, where it also blanketed Melbourne.