Australian firefighters and bushfire survivors have called on world leaders at COP26 to take a stronger action in reducing emissions by 2030.
Jo Dodds who is president of the group Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action, was one of the two Australians to speak at the event co-hosted at the Climate Council at the COP26 UN climate summit in Glasgow.
Ms Dodds took aim at ‘vague’ net-zero by 2050 targets, and said it only brought “more despair”.
This comes as Australia did not support a pledge, signed by 40 countries, to shift away from coal at the climate summit, and did not join more than 100 countries in signing a commitment to reduce methane emissions by 30 per cent by 2030.