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"After decades of foot-dragging on climate change, Australia has finally put
significant commitments in national legislation. It joins other countries such
as Canada and the United States that also recently took big new legal steps.
The new laws may still not be enough, but they mark real progress. Yet, will
such progress last or be short-lived?
As we saw with Australia’s carbon price law, which passed in 2011, a change of
government can lead to a change in direction. And that direction may be broadly
backwards.
For this reason I have, in recent research, called for a new kind of commitment
to climate change mitigation: a set of clear numeric targets entrenched in our
highest laws, namely our constitutions. Constitutions spell out our most
sacrosanct commitments. They are hard to budge once enacted.
At the moment, the focus of constitutional change in Australia is on the
recognition of Indigenous people in the First Nations Voice to Parliament – as
it should be.
But we must also look over the horizon to the next challenges. After the Voice,
climate change commitments should be the next urgent constitutional reform. The
republic can wait; climate change cannot."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
