Pacific islands want Australia to bat for them in global climate negotiations, say experts.
to build “quality, climate-resilient infrastructure” and reassert Australia’s role as a leader on climate change.
While it would help, Labor’s promise to cut Australia’s emissions by 43 per cent this decade, compared with 2005 levels, was “not entirely consistent” with keeping global temperate gains below 1.5 degrees.“They would like to see Australia get serious about emissions reductions. They see that there’s a need to really do our part in terms of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and hence avoiding, specifically, sea-level rises, which terrifies them.
“They want more ambitious emissions commitments from Australia, at least in line with what the US position is,” said Mr Sora, a former Australian diplomat with postings to Solomon Islands and Indonesia. Senator Wong, in her speech in Suva on Thursday, noted Labor took to the election plans to create an Australia-Pacific Climate Infrastructure Partnership “to support climate-related infrastructure and energy projects in Pacific countries and Timor-Leste”.
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