Climate headed for ‘catastrophe’ (Australia)

Up to 15,000 Australians would die each year from heat-related illness, bushfires would double and some of the nation’s most treasured icons would disappear under the federal government’s climate plan, a conservation group claims.

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has attacked the government’s strategy for tackling global warming, saying the “business as usual” approach would lead to catastrophic climate change.