Green light candidate Victoria Davidson (Running)

Victoria has been deemed worthy of support from Climate 200. Vote Climate One has also assessed her as an excellent candidate to support action on climate.

Climate Change and a Green Economy Policy

At least a 60% Emissions Reduction Target (ERT) by 2030, 80% by 2035, and Net Zero by 2040

• legislation of targets and clear emissions reduction planning for all sectors, including hard to abate sectors;
  • legislation must ensure built-in monitoring and accountability;
  • regular reporting to Parliament and a Climate Change Joint Parliamentary Committee would strengthen monitoring, reporting and public confidence. 
• whole of economy approach to climate change solutions: a climate change lens applied to all government projects and decisions to ensure they are not incompatible with achieving ERTs;
• support for households and businesses to transition to full electrification and get off gas.  …

Green light candidate Heather Armstrong (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 …

Green light candidate Ben WISE (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 …