The State and Federal Environment Ministers have released a joint statement acknowledging climate change as the greatest existential threat to the Great Barrier Reef.
The two environment ministers, Sussan Ley, and Leanne Enoch, met in Townsville yesterday part of the Great Barrier Reef Ministerial Forum to discuss the progress of policies set over the past five years to protect the Reef.
Ms Ley said the federal government did accept the science and was taking important steps to protect the reef, while Ms Enoch highlighted the implementation of enforced sediment run-off standards as one of several policies the state government was providing to help protect the reef.