Degraded ecosystems - Australia's biodiversity report card leaves out fossil fuel support

"An international agreement, the Global Biodiversity Framework, called for governments to identify and stop financially supporting industries that harm the environment.But in its first report on its progress towards stopping biodiversity decline, Australia neglected to provide any estimate of its financial support to the fossil fuels industry."

"Australia's first progress report, submitted earlier this month, noted there was $242 million of financial support to the agriculture and fishing sectors that could harm the environment."

"Independent studies have suggested one to three species of invertebrates have gone extinct every week in Australia since European colonisation. "
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