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Executive director of Environment Centre NT, Kirsty Howey, said climate change could make parts of the Northern Territory uninhabitable. Video via AAP

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00:00The future has never looked more bleak for the beautiful landscapes of northern Australia.
00:04We are a cultural and natural wonder, a global treasure for nature, but our places are looking
00:12like being unlivable within a few generations due to climate change. And the National Climate
00:17Risk Assessment laid that absolutely there in excruciating detail. We're looking at heat-related
00:23deaths in Darwin, increasing by 423%. 70% of Territorians living in high-risk or very high-risk
00:32areas susceptible to climate change, and lethal heat that is just simply not compatible with
00:37human life. We were very disappointed yesterday when the Albanese government announced their
00:43climate target. It needs to be more than 75% if we are to avoid the worst impacts of climate
00:52change, and in particular, warming over 1.5 degrees, potentially up to 3 degrees. But
00:59instead, we don't have a target, we have a cop-out.

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