The Coalition has announced a “rescue mission” for the Great Barrier Reef, but based on details released so far, it looks more like a rescue mission for the government’s credibility on reef policy. Related: Great Barrier Reef: advisers call for cap on farm pollutionMoreover, Labor’s promise is for actual funding, not loans. The plan will divert money allocated for fighting climate change towards projects that are focused around the Great Barrier Reef . A recent report from the Great Barrier Reef water science taskforce listed 10 recommendations, none of which appear to involve clean energy technologies. If they happened to also improve water quality on the Great Barrier Reef, it would lend to those projects.

Source: The Guardian June 13, 2016 04:19 UTC