COP26: Former UN climate chief slams Australia over climate goals as world leaders meet for climate summit
Australia has been smashed with criticism, labelled “completely irresponsible” as the nation’s reputation repeatedly cops it in global headlines.
Australia has been labelled “completely irresponsible” and called out for digging “dark holes of poison for itself” as global leaders meet for critical climate talks.
The G20 summit in Rome finished without many concrete commitments on emissions reduction. Now Prime Minister Scott Morrison faces the COP26 United Nations climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson welcomed more than 120 world leaders to historic climate talks in Scotland on Monday with the stark warning: “It’s one minute to midnight, and we need to act now.”
He will use the opportunity to warn leaders in a speech tha
t concludes that “the world is at one minute to midnight and the world needs to act now”, while primarily focusing on “coal, cars, cash and trees”.
The G20 members including China, India and Western nations collectively emit nearly 80 per cent of global carbon emissions, but campaigners’ hopes for more decisive action heading in to COP26 were dashed.
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