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process. I look forward to the committee’s forthcoming reports and especially to the reforms and improvements that will arise from them.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Environment and Transport and City Services—Standing Committee
Statement by chair
MS ORR (Yerrabi) (4.00): Pursuant to standing order 246A, I wish to make a statement on behalf of the Standing Committee on Environment and Transport and City Services relating to petitions Nos 1-19 and 7-19. The petitions were received by the Assembly on 19 March 2019 and referred to the committee under standing order 99A. As signatories to petitions 1-19 and 7-19, a combined total of 1,482 residents of the ACT noted that “street and park trees in our established suburbs are declining by around 3,000 a year” and called on the Assembly to “request the ACT government to plant an extra 7,000 trees a year to reverse the decline and begin restoring the city’s tree canopy”. The committee notes that the topics of these petitions are directly relevant to, and likely to be addressed by, the current committee inquiry into nature in our city. The committee will consider the petitions during the inquiry.
Crossbench executive members’ business
Ordered that crossbench executive members’ business be called on.
Environment—climate change
MR RATTENBURY (Kurrajong) (4.01): I move:
That this Assembly:
(1) notes:
(a) globally, nationally and locally, human induced climate change is contributing to record breaking temperatures, extreme weather events, and a range of negative social, environmental and economic outcomes;
(b) ACT residents have just experienced the hottest January on record, and local temperature extremes will worsen as climate change progresses;
(c) Tasmania, Victoria and Queensland have recently been devastated by bushfires and North Queensland has recently suffered extreme flooding;
(d) global temperature rise must be limited to 1.5 degrees to minimise the risk of the worst impacts of climate change, a task the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says requires urgent and unprecedented action; and
(e) ACT and Australian residents want their elected representatives to take urgent and effective action to address climate change;
(2) acknowledges that we are in a state of climate emergency that requires urgent actions across all levels of Government; and
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