Hello and welcome to Business Weekly with me Tamerson Ford.

On the show today, it has been discovered in almost every crevice on the planet,

from mountaintops to ocean trenches.

We're talking plastic waste.

The world's biggest plastic polluter has been named. We'll find out who

it is. And if governments won't step up to protect the world's forests, is there a place for the

private sector? We hear about a new project trying to save the Amazon rainforest. But first, we've all heard the warnings. Unless the

world takes drastic action now, scientists say we're heading for a climate disaster. And that's why

world leaders are gathering in Glasgow, in Scotland, for the UN's Global Climate Conference, COP 26. Their aim is to

thrash out goals on how to achieve the 1.5 degrees Celsius target. This is the world's official goal

for how much we can let the planet warm before irreversible damage is done.

Countries are already beginning to pledge their own targets.

Australia announced it wants to achieve net zero carbon emissions by the year 2050.

That means not releasing more carbon into the atmosphere than taking out of it.

It joins more than 100 countries who have already made similar pledges over the last decade.

Australia's Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, says it will get there through technology rather than taxes.

Australians want action on climate change.

They're taking action on climate change, but they also want to protect their jobs and their livelihoods.

They also want to keep the costs of living down.

And they also want to protect the Australian way of life.

Australians want a plan that gets the balance right

and our plan to reach what will be our new official target of reaching net zero emissions

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