Walk against warming to express concerns | Environment

Bill Hoffman | 1st December 2008

Walk Against Warming 2007.

SUNSHINE Coast residents have been urged to express concern about the impacts of climate change and the need for action by government at a Walk Against Warming protest on Saturday.

The walk, which follows similar events in capital cities this month, will push for the urgent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and the need to live more sustainably.

Sunshine Coast Environment Council project manager Annie Nolan said climate change had dangerous implications for vulnerable coastal communities like the Sunshine Coast.

Ms Nolan said it was an environmental imperative that greenhouse gas emissions were reduced urgently and to live more sustainably

She said it was essential to send a strong message to local, state, national and international leaders for decisive action.

Australia needed to commit to a reduction in emissions by at least 30% by 2020 in line with scientific requirements to keep global CO2 concentrations below 450ppm, she said.

Ms Nolan said failure to do so would result in irrevocable destruction of iconic ecological features such as the wet tropics and the Great Barrier Reef, together with increasingly severe and frequent storms with associated storm surges and flooding in coastal communities.

Walk Against Warming will be held from 10am with assembly in the park next to the Alexandra Headland Surf Club.

The walk will continue on the coastal path to Cotton Tree, returning by noon.

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