Canavan supports Paris Agreement but says EU trade deal goes too far
The Queensland senator says it is important to take measures to reduce emissions where the country can afford it.
How do you broker UN climate talks when your own country is a big coal and gas exporter? Chris Bowen is about to find out
Ahead of Cop31, climate change minister dismisses concerns about whether Australia as a major producer can keep the world moving away from fossil fuels
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Australia has been urged to set aside support for its near US$100bn fossil fuel export industries and fight for a global agreement to move away from coal, gas and oil as its climate change minister, Chris Bowen, leads negotiations between nearly 200 countries at UN talks this week.
Delegates will gather in the Turkish Mediterranean resort city of Antalya on Monday for Cop31, two weeks of climate talks held amid geopolitical turmoil, with conflict in the Middle East driving an oil price crisis that has raised living costs across the globe.
What’s the point? Ten years after the Paris treaty, are climate talks getting anywhere?
Its key temperature goal has been missed but experts say the agreement is still proving a vital moral compass for progress
It was a curious way of conducting negotiations. Ahead of the 2025 climate summit, in the Amazonian port of Belém last year, the Brazilian hosts had taken off the table the issue that most had assumed would be at its heart: concrete plans from each country laying out exactly what they would be doing to cut their greenhouse gas emissions.
Brazil was insisting, instead, that these plans – the bedrock of the Paris agreement – were the business of national governments and not up for negotiation. “In that case, it will be a very short Cop,” one seasoned global south negotiator told the Guardian shortly before, reflecting a widespread unease. “There is nothing to negotiate.”
Fishers’ hurt on display as WA’s demersal ban faces parliamentary scrutiny
Three days of parliamentary hearings have exposed ongoing divisions over fisheries science, management decisions and the ongoing access to fish stocks, with calls for greater transparency.
Reefs’ new name echoes the legacy of the ‘Bingil Bay Bastard’
John Büsst was a poet, artist, revered conservationist and friend of the prime minister, who campaigned for the Great Barrier Reef to be protected when many scientists hesitated to get political.