Climate Emergency: Australia on the frontline of climate change | 7.30

This week the new US President Joe Biden will host a virtual summit for world leaders, pushing for more coordinated and strenuous action on climate change, no doubt hoping to capitalise on the lesson of coronavirus while it's still fresh - that doing too little, too late has dire consequences.

So far, most nations - including Australia - have acted with insufficient urgency, meaning that the task ahead is now both mitigation and adaptation.

This week, to coincide with the Biden summit, 7.30 has a special four-part series from reporter Andy Park and producer Alex McDonald on where things are at in 2021 with climate change. We begin in Australia's Torres Strait.

For Part 2, click here: https://youtu.be/U2EEpkdS0aI
For Part 3, click here: https://youtu.be/8Qr-SHhssTU
For Part 4, click here: https://youtu.be/gR5icYEab7A

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