Australia ‘on track’ with climate targets needed to protect Great Barrier Reef, Labor tells Unesco

Federal and Queensland governments are trying to convince UN body not to add the reef to list of world heritage sites in danger

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The Albanese government has claimed it is “on track” to have national climate targets that would be in line with keeping global heating to 1.5C in a report to Unesco on efforts to protect the Great Barrier Reef.

The federal and Queensland governments are trying to convince Unesco not to recommend the world’s biggest coral reef system be placed on a list of world heritage sites in danger – with a decision due at a meeting in India in July.

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