Australia has found common ground to respond to Covid-19.
We can do the same for climate change | Emma Herd, CEO, IGCC

This article first appeared in The Guardian 07 May 2020

After all we have already endured in 2020 we should know that stopping an emergency is far better than responding to one.

In just a few short months, many more people in Australia have faced greater adversity in 2020 than in the decade since we emerged from the global financial crisis.

The bushfires that affected the health of millions, claimed lives and livelihoods, blighted our landscape and destroyed communities were unprecedented in size and intensity. Now the acute shock of the Covid-19 pandemic has also taken lives and left many more living in fear, while throwing hundreds of thousands out of paid work, shattering businesses and leaving us facing an unstable new world.