Senate Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy (part 2 of 2)
29 September 2025
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Senate Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy Australian Parliament
00:00 - 00:19
Speaker 5
Was the biggest con in human history. My my two questions on that are, look, given your role and how... What you've been working towards, how did you personally feel when you heard that? And secondly, was there other positive things that came out of the UN meeting around other countries' commitments to climate change?
00:21 - 02:54
Speaker 8
So climate science, which has been independently assessed through the Internet... Intergovernmental panel on climate change over decades, is unequivocal that climate change is happening that is humanly provoked, and that the main cause of climate change are fossil fuels. But this is only one area of science that provides this clarification. We also know from biodiversity science that climate change is happening. It is undermining the life supporting systems on our planet.
And health science from across all the discipline of medicine is indicating how climate change and particularly, fossil fuel related activities from cradle to grave as a very recent report has confirmed, is negatively impacting every aspect of human well-being. In fact, every single organ in our body. And it is not only, contributing to climate change, but also making the impacts of climate change worse by, damaging nature and the contributions of nature to the regulation of the climate, damaging our food systems. And all of this has an additional impact on human capacities for resilience in the context of climate change. So the fact that, climate change is happening and it's, humanly induced, it's provoked by our human activities and, in particular, fossil fuels is an undisputable scientific fact and, unfortunately, is becoming a reality, for so many people in their lived experiences across the world, increasingly also in developed states.
But in many regions of the world, we have recorded catastrophic climate impacts for over a decade. So, of course, there are so many governments who are truly and deeply committed to climate action, to meaningful climate action, particularly those that have been most affected, including in your own region, and they are very committed to, advancing the phase out of fossil fuels. Many states here in Geneva, when I presented my report on the human rights imperative of our economies, have supported the report, including some of the historic producers of fossil fuels. So I think there is a significant, majority of states who have also so, declared before the International Court of Justice, in the advisory proceedings that... On state's obligations on climate change.
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