Scott Morrison not invited to UN climate meeting
The Australian prime minister has spent 2020 promoting the role of the country’s oil and natural gas exports
10 December 2020 - 16:39
About 70 leaders including Boris Johnson and Emmanuel Macron will use a global climate summit this weekend to outline new pledges to cut greenhouse-gas emissions. Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who supports fossil fuels, will be conspicuously absent.
Morrison wasn’t invited to the UN Climate Action Summit on Saturday because he hadn’t come up with an ambitious enough pledge, according to two people familiar with the matter. The summit marks the fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to well below 2°C — a target which the world has yet to achieve...
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