Great Barrier Reef protection plan 'ignores the threat of climate change'

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Scientists warn the governments strategy is likely to prove ineffectual as unless Australia cuts back on carbon dioxide emissions we wont have much of a Great Barrier Reef left

The Australian governments multimillion dollar plan to halt the worrying decline of the Great Barrier Reef does nothing to address the leading threat of climate change and is likely to prove largely ineffectual, scientists have warned.

In its formal response to the Reef 2050 long-term sustainability plan, which was drawn up by the Australian and Queensland governments, the Australian Academy of Science states the strategy is inadequate to achieve the goal of restoring or even maintaining the diminished outstanding universal value of the reef.

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