Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Just a few days in the past, Nancy Pelosi praised Aussie PM Scott Morrison for “Leading the Way” on local weather motion. Now, just some days later, ScoMo is contemplating not attending COP26, and a gaggle of diplomats are warning “climate inertia” is undermining Australia’s worldwide status.
Scott Morrison could snub the COP26 local weather talks as Australia turns into extra remoted
By Helen Regan and Angela Dewan, CNN
Updated 1358 GMT (2158 HKT) September 27, 2021
(CNN)Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Monday he might not show up at the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow this November, as his government becomes increasingly isolated in international efforts on the crisis.
More than 100 world leaders, including US President Joe Biden, have confirmed their attendance at the talks hosted by the United Kingdom, a close ally of Australia. Leaders of the G20, which includes Australia, will be convening in Rome a day ahead of the climate talks. While it is not yet confirmed if Morrison will be at that summit, many G20 leaders are likely to take the short flight from the Italian capital to COP26 in Scotland.
“We haven’t made any final decisions about (attending COP26). I mean it is another trip overseas and I’ve been on several this year and spent a lot of time in quarantine,” Morrison told the West Australian newspaper.
Morrison said he needed to focus on the country’s reopening after an extended lockdown. His government is aiming to relax its hardline border restrictions in December.
“Australia will be opening up around that time, there will be a lot of issues to manage and I have to manage those competing demands,” he said.
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Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/27/australia/australia-morrison-skip-climate-cop26-glasgow-intl-hnk/index.html
The diplomats warning on Australia’s “climate inertia”;
Coalition inertia on climate undermines Australia’s credibility in region, ex-diplomats warn
The group, including former ambassadors and high commissioners, says urgent action is an ‘ethical and moral responsibility towards future generations’
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Mon 27 Sep 2021 03.30 AESTA gaggle of 70 former diplomats has warned the Morrison authorities that failing to enroll to a dedication of internet zero emissions by 2050 imperils Australia’s strategic pursuits and “undermines our credibility as a regional partner”.
The group has written to the prime minister and related portfolio ministers arguing {that a} scientific consensus about the dangers related to runaway world heating renders pressing coverage motion an “ethical and moral responsibility towards future generations”.
“As former diplomats we are deeply concerned that Australia’s key strategic and economic interests are at risk because of our failure to date to commit to a target of net zero emissions by 2050,” the joint letter says.
“This lack of commitment is particularly concerning to those regional partners for whom climate change already poses a clear existential threat. The United States and other key partners in Europe and around the globe are increasingly voicing concerns that Australia is not pulling its weight on climate action.”
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“We fear this inertia will undermine many of the strong international relationships we have built up over decades,” the letter says.
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While metropolitan Liberals need the federal government to undertake the mid-century goal, and two senior ministers, Josh Frydenberg and Simon Birmingham have argued the financial case to enroll – ructions proceed within the junior Coalition companion.
Some Nationals are implacably against internet zero. On Sunday, the Nationals deputy chief David Littleproud stated he anticipated any colleagues who opposed internet zero to fall into line if the get together room in the end adopted the dedication.
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Read extra: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/27/ex-diplomats-warn-morrison-government-inertia-on-climate-undermines-our-credibility-as-a-regional-partner
I can perceive why Aussie Prime Minister Scott Morrison is undecided about attending COP26.
Barnaby Joyce, deputy Prime Minister and chief of the junior coalition companion National Party, lately acknowledged he is not going to help laws which harms coal mining jobs.
With the nationals fortunately digging their heels in on this challenge, all that will be left for Aussie Prime Minister Scott Morrison to do at COP26, can be to maintain apologising to everybody, and explaining that he's powerless to alter something.
h/t Bob Tisdale – Australia’s Sky News Andrew Bolt expressing concern Scott Morrison might cave on setting local weather targets and attacking the coal business, criticising Britain’s self inflicted power disaster, and criticising educational and media indoctrination of younger individuals.
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