Green light candidate Llynda Nairn (Running)

All Greens candidates for the NSW state election have been assessed by Vote Climate One as Green Light Candidates because of their strong policy and action on climate.

CLIMATE CHANGE

Principles

The Greens NSW believe that:

1.    Humans have radically altered Earth’s biophysical environment; this degradation poses the greatest threat to our planet’s climate system. A meaningful shift by communities, governments and corporations to a more harmonious and symbiotic relationship with Earth’s living systems is urgently required.

2.    Climate change threatens all aspects of life. It is already disrupting human societies through changing weather patterns, extreme weather events, desertification and sea level rise. It threatens food security, water, the economy, social cohesion and the well-being of humans and other living things. Impacts will escalate, putting increased …

Green light candidate Graham JONES (Running)

Pictured: 2022 NSW Senate candidate Cr Georgia Lamb (right).

“The viability of our societies depends on leaders from government, business and civil society uniting behind policies, actions and investments that will limit temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius.” Australian Broadcasting Corporation

“The world’s leading climate scientists have warned that the prospect of limiting global warming to 1.5C will be out of reach within 12 years at current rates of greenhouse gas emissions, in a report that finds it is now “unequivocal’’ that human activity is heating the planet.” The Australian [$]

• Act on climate change and contribute to staying below 1.5 degrees global temperature rise compared to pre-industrial levels (1)
• Support international agreements …

Green light candidate Andrew FENWICK (Running)

Legalise Cannabis NSW Party answered all our foundational questions strongly in the affirmative. Despite the lack of climate emergency information on their website they are ranked as a GREEN light party. Their tag line for climate is “There is no life on a dead …

Green light candidate Victoria Davies (Running)

The Climate Emergency

The AJP is the only political party with policies that comprehensively take into account all sources of emissions, including the impact of animal agriculture and land clearing on the global climate, and the need to urgently transition to a plant-based diet in order to address the climate crisis.

Policy

The Animal Justice Party (AJP) will take urgent action to address the climate emergency. In addition to phasing out fossil fuels, we will transition from animal agriculture towards more sustainable plant-based farming, and transform other climate threatening industries and practices. This is essential not only to reduce harmful emissions, but also to protect nature, and human and other animal life.

Key Objectives

1. Declare a climate emergency and biodiversity emergency …