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Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo is now addressing the session on forests and land-use.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and President of Indonesia Joko Widodo.Credit:Getty Images
Mr Joko said that the deforestation pledge must not solely apply to tropical forests pointing out that forest fires release greenhouse gases.
The president said that “with or without support†Indonesia “will continue to move forward†on deforestation.
He said he is spurring private sector growth by establishing an environmental fund agency and issuing green bonds as well as developing a carbon value mechanism.
Mr Joko’s speech ended the session. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson could be overheard enthusiastically praising the Indonesian for his “fantastic speech.â€
“Well done,†Johnson told Mr Joko.
Day two of the talks involving world leaders are starting.
Host leader Boris Johnson is opening the session on forests and land use. He is on stage with Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo.
Johnson says 110 leaders have now signed up to the deforestation pledge “to halt†deforestation.
He says this is the highest number of leaders ever to have signed up to such a promise and that the range of countries involved includes China and Brazil.
Good evening, this is Latika Bourke in Scotland taking you through our live coverage for the evening, focusing on the UN climate summit under way in Glasgow.
World leaders are today announcing a pledge to end deforestation by 2030. This is the first major announcement of the summit.
Why is this important?
As environment editor Nick O’Malley reports, the world lost 258,000 square kilometres of forest in 2020 - an area larger than the United Kingdom.
And the Geneva-based World Meteorological Organisation said that parts of the Amazon rainforest had gone from being a carbon “sink†that sucked carbon dioxide from the air to a source of CO2 due to deforestation and reduced humidity in the region.
Victoria’s wave of daily COVID-19 exposure sites has dwindled to a trickle, with only about 70 tier-1 sites now listed on the state government’s website.
Ten new close contact exposures were added on Tuesday evening: Missen Link Burgers at Traralgon in the Latrobe Valley, across four days; the Lincolnshire ARMS Hotel at Essendon; Domino’s Pizza at Wangaratta, across two days; Industry Studios at Warragul; and, Gurri Wanyarra Wellbeing Centre at Kangaroo, northeast of Melbourne.
The bulk of the listed exposure sites are in the state’s regions.
Traralgon is the suburb with the most close contact sites listed: 13.
North of Melbourne, there are three tier-1 sites listed in Wodonga, four in Wangaratta, two in Benalla, three in Shepparton, seven in Mildura, five in Bendigo, one in Macedon, one in Huntly, four in Woodend, two in Kyneton, two in Kangaroo, and one in Daylesford.
West of Melbourne in Ballarat, there is one tier-1 site listed, and in the state’s southwest, there are two in Geelong, one in Queenscliff, and one in Torquay.
In the state’s east, there are 13 close contact sites listed in Traralgon, two in Glengarry, six in Moe, one in Sale, and two in Warragul.
In Melbourne, Deer Park, Essendon and Epping each have one tier-1 site listed.
Fully vaccinated people who have visited the tier-1 venues have to quarantine for seven days from the exposure, while people who are not fully vaccinated have to quarantine for 14 days.
Thanks for following our blog today. Here's a recap of some of the day's headlines:
Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen has questioned when Australia will deliver on a pledge of 2 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine, saying he will buy more from China if they don’t turn up.
The long-time leader told a press conference in the capital Phnom Penh he was counting on the donated vaccines from Australia because the country still needs more despite having one of the most successful immunisation drives in south-east Asia.
Cambodia’s Hun Sen has leaned on China for vaccines.Credit:AP
“Australia had promised to donate the Pfizer vaccines and this was long overdue but if there is uncertainty about getting it, then our next decision is to buy the Sinovac vaccines,†he was quoted as saying.
Australia has so far sent 5.85 million of the promised 60 million doses to the region, according to an Australian government document.
Read more here.
More than a tenth of all COVID-19 cases in the ACT have been in Indigenous people, with the vast majority of them unvaccinated against the virus.
Of the 1664 total cases from the current outbreak, 197 â€" or 11 per cent â€" have been in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. That's despite them making up less than two per cent of the ACT's total estimated population.
The ACT’s Deputy Chief Health Officer Vanessa Johnson also said that 63 of those cases were in people under 12, and 151 of the total cases were in unvaccinated people.
“What we’re seeing is significantly more cases in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community who are aged under 12,†she said.
“This is really reflecting the age profile of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population here in the ACT, the younger age profile, but also the fact that they generally have larger households than the non-Indigenous population.â€
According to federal government figures, 4322 out of an estimated 7513 Indigenous people in the ACT have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet will await advice from the corruption watchdog before considering whether rules around private phones and technology used by ministers need strengthening.
Mr Perrottet on Tuesday said he and many members of Parliament used a private phone, following evidence to a corruption inquiry that his predecessor Gladys Berejiklian was urged to use more secure communication methods by her then-boyfriend Daryl Maguire.
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet says it’s common for MPs to use private phones. Credit:Kate Geraghty
“I have a private phone and I think many ministers and many members of Parliament do that to keep your professional work separate from your private discussions,†Mr Perrottet said.
He said he was unfamiliar with WeChat â€" the app recommended by Mr Maguire as being more secure â€" but said he was sure many members of Parliament used WhatsApp in their private communications.
Read more here.
COVID restrictions in NSW schools will ease slightly from next week, with assemblies and presentations allowed outdoors, day excursions permitted, and music ensembles and lessons back for instruments that can be played with a mask.
From Monday, community use of school sites can resume, while fully vaccinated volunteers will be allowed on site to help with the canteen or uniform shop.
Sport will be allowed between different year levels on campus, and inter-school sport will resume out of school hours. Dancing is also back on the cards.
The ban on using instruments that require air (such as brass and woodwind) comes despite the extremely low risk children face from COVID, and the fact that nightclubs can reopen dance floors.
Meanwhile, the NSW Education Department says about 4900 teachers in the public sector are yet to be fully vaccinated ahead of the deadline on Monday, when all school staff are required to have had both shots to be allowed onto school sites.
Read more here.
More than 16,000 Victorians are still without power, as providers work to repair damage caused by catastrophic winds and storms that lashed the state last week.
Retiree Michelle Gallant and her husband David Rose, who live near Montrose in the Dandenong Ranges in Melbourne’s east, were among those who lost power on Friday morning.
There were plenty of these scenes in Melbourne last week. Credit:Joe Armao
They are facing another day reliant on a generator, which they're grateful they purchased after the Dandenongs were rocked by horrific storms that caused mass power outages in July. Ms Gallant and her husband lost power for six days then.
“For us, it’s inconvenient,†Ms Gallant said. “It’s costing us about $30 a day in unleaded petrol - I didn’t realise it would run into quite that much.â€
Ms Gallant said while the generator keeps the fridge going and the lights on in the evening, there isn’t enough power to run the washing machine.
She is thankful that she and her husband didn’t have their home damaged in the winds, and said they would keep a close eye on the radar over the coming hours as they worried about more trees falling.
It's day five without power and water, too, for Amy Campion, as the water tank on her property relies on an electric pump. A large tree from her front yard took down power lines and, further down her street, another tree took down more wires and crushed a car.
At Healesville in the Yarra Valley, Gerry was looking at his power being restored at 11.59pm. In the last major storm before this one, he lost power for 10 days.
“It is becoming tedious that it takes [so] long to fix problems,†he wrote to The Age. “Clearly there are not sufficient people employed to do maintenance or emergency remediation.â€
Energy Minister Lily D’Ambrosio said yesterday that some customers were likely to be without power until the end of the week.
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