Former fire chiefs and climate experts call for disaster levy on fossil fuel industry

Former fire chiefs and climate experts are urging the federal government to impose a levy on the fossil fuel industry to help pay for the impact of natural disasters.

Former NSW Fire and Rescue Commissioner Greg Mullins (c) and former emergency services chiefs. Source: AAP

Highlights

• Australia's deadly Black Summer bushfires are the country's worst on record.
• The Emergency Leaders for Climate Action warns that fires were caused by a warming climate.
• They want the federal government to impose levy on fossil fuel producers and have a national climate disaster fund to meet “climate-fuelled” costs.

The Emergency Leaders for Climate Action have released a plan to prevent a repeat of last summer's horror fire season and say it's critical climate change is addressed.

 

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