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Australia at Paris Climate Summit

Australia rejects call for 1.5-degree global warming target
Australia won’t support a 108-country-strong call in Paris to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees, but backs a United Nations review of the science.

The call for a special report by the UN climate science body is understood to have come from a group of vulnerable nations, who believe the two-degree goal would severely damage their countries.

Those nations, like the Pacific Islands, want the 1.5-degree goal included in a global agreement to curb emissions, which is being negotiated an major climate talks in Paris.http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/12/05/australia-rejects-call-15-degree-global-warming-target

Julie Bishop chided for ‘joke’ about rising seas flooding Marshall Islands
Australia still has not learned not to make jokes about the impacts of climate change on its low-lying neighbours, Marshall Islands minister says at Paris talks
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/dec/05/julie-bishop-chided-for-joke-about-rising-seas-flooding-marshall-islands

UN climate summit Paris 2015: Australia trying to push open rich-poor divide

Australia is at the centre of a stoush that is enraging developing countries, as some industrialised nations fight for the decades-long demarcation between the wealthy and poor to be broken down as part of a global pact to fight climate change.

The move at the Paris climate summit prompted angry representatives of developing nation to warn that a deal would be at risk unless agreement was reached on the financial help offered to poor nations.http://www.smh.com.au/environment/un-climate-conference/un-climate-summit-paris-2015-australia-trying-to-push-open-richpoor-divide-20151203-glf58j.html

December 6, 2015 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | General News