Support the Climate Change Amendment (Duty of Care and Intergenerational Equity) Bill 2023
Join the thousands of people who believe that politicians and policy makers have a duty of care to young people and future generations.
https://adutyofcare.davidpocock.com.au/
We all know the decisions we make today affect our future. When those decisions are made by politicians, they affect all of us.
When it comes to climate change, politicians and policy makers still aren’t acting in the best interests of young people and future generations.
We need to act now if we want to protect the people and places we love.
We support the Climate Change Amendment (Duty of Care and Intergenerational Equity) Bill 2023 which imposes a statutory duty on decision makers:
To consider the likely impact of decisions that could harm the climate on the health and wellbeing of current and future children as the paramount consideration; and
Not to make a decision that could harm the climate if the decision poses a material risk of harm to the health and wellbeing of current and future children in Australia.
We the undersigned call on the federal parliament to pass legislation that imposes this Duty of Care and act now if we want to protect the people and places we love.
From The Guardian Australia
Pocock seeks to impose duty of care on Australian government over climate harm
The independent senator David Pocock will call for a duty of care in Australian law that would require governments to consider the impact of climate harm on young people in their decision-making.
With July on track to be the world’s hottest month on record, the ACT senator will move his first private members’s bill, which calls for new conditions to be enshrined in Australia’s Climate Change Act.
3 August 2023