{"id":29722,"date":"2018-10-26T12:03:40","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T06:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=29722"},"modified":"2018-10-26T12:03:40","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T06:33:40","slug":"australia-pledges-half-a-billion-to-restore-great-barrier-reef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/australia-pledges-half-a-billion-to-restore-great-barrier-reef\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia pledges half a billion to restore Great Barrier Reef"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-life\/australia-pledges-half-a-billion-to-restore-great-barrier-reef\/article23723009.ece\">Australia pledges half a billion to restore Great Barrier Reef<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What has happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Australia pledged Aus $500 million ($379 million) in new funding to restore and protect the Great Barrier Reef on Sunday, in what it said would be a game-changer for the embattled natural wonder<\/p>\n<p><strong>Canberra criticised<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Canberra has previously committed more than Aus$2 billion to protect the site over the next decade, but has been criticised for backing a huge coal project by Indian mining giant Adani nearby<\/li>\n<li>With its heavy use of coal-fired power and relatively small population, Australia is considered one of the world\u2019s worst per-capita greenhouse gas polluters.<\/li>\n<li>Canberra insists it is taking strong action to address the global threat of climate change, having set an ambitious target to reduce emissions by 26 to 28% from 2005 levels by 2030.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Conservationists view<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While the funding was \u201can important step\u201d, the biggest threat to the reef was global warming and not enough was being done to combat it by embracing clean energy<\/p>\n<p><strong>Target areas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The bulk of the new funding was earmarked to improve water quality by changing farming practices and adopting new technologies and land management<\/p>\n<p><strong>Damage to the reef continues<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Earlier this month, scientists said the site suffered a \u201ccatastrophic die-off\u201d of coral during an extended heatwave in 2016, threatening a broader range of reef life than previously feared.<\/li>\n<li>A study in the journal\u00a0Nature\u00a0said some 30% of the reef\u2019s coral perished, the first of an unprecedented two successive years of coral bleaching along the 2,300-km reef.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia pledges half a billion to restore Great Barrier Reef What has happened? Australia pledged Aus $500 million ($379 million) in new funding to restore and protect the Great Barrier Reef on Sunday, in what it said would be a game-changer for the embattled natural wonder Canberra criticised Canberra has previously committed more than Aus$2&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/australia-pledges-half-a-billion-to-restore-great-barrier-reef\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Australia pledges half a billion to restore Great Barrier Reef<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704778869},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}