Momentum matters on climate, and he won’t get another chance to make an urgent first impression
‘Anthony Albanese missed a trick not coming to say this himself, and indicating what more Australia will do, particularly on finance. ‘‘Anthony Albanese missed a trick not coming to say this himself, and indicating what more Australia will do, particularly on finance. ‘It lasted only three hours, butunderlined that it was a mistake for Anthony Albanese not to attend the annual UN climate conference known as Cop27.
The conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, a narrow tourist strip between the Red Sea and the Sinai peninsula desert, has quite a different hue to the politically heavy Cop26 meeting in Glasgow last year. Then, national leaders were expected to turn up with strengthened commitments for 2030 that reflected the scale of the problem. Many did pledge to do more, but not enough.
Many leaders agreed to the request, leaving Albanese – who opted to attend parliament ahead of a week of international meetings in south-east Asia – in a minority of those who didn’t come. It was an odd choice, given Australia isDoes his absence matter? In the practical terms of what is agreed at these fortnight-long talks, probably not.
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