The Australian government has maintained a major barrier leaf from a dangerous World Heritage List, dispatching politicians and officials to the Paris Headquarters in UNESCO and asking diplomats to gather information about countries that may affect the decision. We conducted an international lobby activity to do.
This campaign was revealed in a document released to the Greens after the request of the parliament, and how to affect members of the Australia’s UNESCO and 21 Country World Heritage Committee, until Australia reached a crunch meeting last July. Indicates whether you tried to give it.
After the committee warned that the reef would be considered on the “Dungar” list at the next meeting in July 2024 in September, it was approved by the Minister of the Environment Tanya Priverezesk in December 2023 and was sustained by the government. The strategy has been formulated.
PLIBERSEK said the government said, “I am proud of the work I did to protect the great barrier reefs better, and I was pleased that UNESCO acknowledged the job.”
She said that the Labor Party invested $ 1.2 billion to protect the coral reefs better and doubled the reefspiece funding.
“We will continue to cooperate with the World Heritage Committee and UNESCO to ensure the protection of coral reefs influenced by climate change and all World Heritage.”
This strategy is the maximum of Australia, which targets a meeting with a new member of the committee, outlines how to meet UNESCO and his advisor, identifies the opportunity at other international conferences, and protects the leaf. I mentioned an incident that I am doing.
The strategy said the Australian election to the UNESCO’s Executive Committee last month would provide an additional path to promote Australia’s World Heritage Sites.
In November 2023, the Australian government appointed Albras, an ambassador based in UNESCO’s full -time Paris. The document indicates that Albras regularly engaged in leaf issues and met other UNESCO Ambassador, “A fair and transparent, consistent and transparent world heritage that influenced the climate. “Approach” has been promoted.
In April 2024, Senator Nita Green, a member of the Leaf Leaf in Australia, traveled to the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, and for a meeting with UNESCO officials and committees, the greatest government officials and graduates. He joined Josh Thomas, the highest executive officer of the barrier Leaf Leaf Marine Park Bureau. member.
In May, a cable reported at a meeting with a UNESCO World Heritage Center in Paris in May, “Management of World Heritage is managed instead of single -walled leafs with dangerous listing threats. It seems that the uncertainty of the climate is good. “
Senior Foreign Affairs also traveled to Paris in July, held a meeting with UNESCO’s senior director, and discussed the leaf issues.
The Australian government’s overseas government staff, published in the committee members, sent a questionnaire to gather information. Greece, Bulgaria, Argentina, Lebanon, Belgium, and Jamaica diplomats were one of them to complete their work.
The staff had been asked to identify environmental groups, media, and journalists with the “history of defenders” or reefs, with environmental groups, media outlets and journalists. They were asked to outline the positions of member states on the issue of World Heritage Sites.
Like some other cables and documents, almost all answers to the questionnaire have been greatly edited.
In September, after a coral reef fled again at the meeting of the committee in India, the government cable was “involved with members of the committee” is “an important factor in Australia’s World Heritage Protection Strategy. , The new committee is important for Australia’s profits.
The document also shows that the government needs to maintain its advocacy until at least 2026, at least in 2026, saying that the committee can take the risk list.
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The location of the world’s heritage list is engraved for “remarkable value for mankind”, but if those values are present or potential threats, the site will be placed on the danger list.
In 2021, the Great Barrier Leaf became the first global and first site recommended for the dangerous list due to the impact of climate change.
However, after a wide lobby activity from the Morison government, UNESCO and his advisor’s advisor, the International Nature Protection Alliance (IUCN), was ignored by the World Heritage Committee.
The decision has raised concerns among World Heritage experts that the committee has become more political and ignores scientific and technical advice.
According to IUCN, climate change is the most common threat to the world’s heritage, and is considered to be high or very high on 83 sites around the world.
“Intense, adjusted, global lobby efforts are at risk of the world’s heritage,” said Senator Peter Wilson, a Senator Greens, who demanded documents.
He said he believed that if the coral reef was on the list in the danger, it would attract attention in the Australian fossil fuel exports industry.
“The continuous breeding fuel Australian government knows this, so it’s not their benefit to seeing it dangerous,” he said.
“Australia is the world’s largest natural guardian, and cannot be the third largest fossil fuel on the earth. It is a strict choice between coal and coral.”
He has become a coral reef “one of the most political ecosystem on the earth”, and the document is “Australia’s claim and continuous fossil fuel that the Albanese government will take domestic actions on climate change. He said that he was sharply recognized during exports. “
The extensive bleaching of the Great Barrier Leaf Coral was first observed in 1998 and was once again observed in 2002, 2016, 2017, 2020, and 2022. Last summer’s bleaching was widely widespread in areas where coral death was high.
Which-Wilson stated that it would be “sexual” if the coral reef continued to stay away from UNESCO’s danger list.
According to Dr. Reats Sindler, the Great Barrier Leaf Campaign Manager of the Australian Marine Protection Association, said: This document indicates that it focuses on forming awareness, such as managing the criticism of the Australian climate policy and the export of fossil fuels. It is clear that they regarded this as a high stakes problem.
“It is troublesome to focus on the lobby activity while receiving the worst bleaching event recorded in 2024. Lobby activity may delay the list of” dangers “, We are not dealing with the root cause of the decline of coral reefs. “
