Yesterday, federal climate change minister Greg Combet announced that former Australian of the Year Professor Tim Flannery would head up a newly established independent Climate Commission, to provide “an authoritative, independent source of information” on climate change for the Australian community.
Read the the transcript of the press conference with Professor Flannery onClimate Spectator, in which the Professor tells journalists:
- The Commission will not be dealing with issues of belief, but issues of risk management, probabilities and the basics of what the science says about climate change;
- The Commission will be leading a discussion on how the issue of climate change may be addressed, ranging from adaptation through to a price on carbon;
- The Commission’s role is not only to put a point of view but to listen to what people in communities have to say and to try and have a proper dialogue;
- That his role will be to make sure that the Commission remains true to the science and objective and engaged;
- That the Commission is aware that the big challenge, globally, is that we have to reign in global emissions to avoid climate dangerous change.
- That locally, it will be very challenging to even effect a 5 per cent reduction below 2000 levels.
- The Commission has a role in asking the scientists who are on the Commission for an explanation and an analysis of what the recent spate of natural disasters mean in terms of climate science.
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