Australia’s minister for the Pacific, Pat Conroy, will use the first days of the global climate talks – known as the world leaders summit – to meet with Pacific island leaders to discuss plans to co-host a COP summit with them in 2026
.for the talks, choosing instead to attend ASEAN, Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation and G20 meetings in Cambodia, Thailand and Bali, respectively. Conroy will represent Australia during the first days of the talks in Egypt, along with the newly appointed climate change ambassador, Kristin Tilley.Alex Ellinghausen
He said Pacific island leaders he had spoken with were relieved the new government had re-engaged with the region on climate.“Climate didn’t define the entire relationship with the Pacific ... but it was seen as a sign of disrespect that the last government rejected taking action on climate change, which is the number one existential threat to the Pacific,” Conroy said.
Australia will also support the Pacific in moves to debate changing international maritime law, so that nations which might in future lose islands to rising sea levels do not also lose exclusive economic zones around those islands.Around 70 world leaders, including about half of the richest nations from the G20, are expected to attend and address the leaders summit, including Brazil’s incoming president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Italy’s new far-right prime minister Giorgia Meloni.
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