As Australia seeks to shore up support to co-host a United Nations climate conference with the Pacific in 2026, some elders are pushing back on our coal and gas exports.
Pacific Island nations should delay supporting Australia’s bid to host a United Nations climate conference until it commits to ending support for fossil fuels, according to a full-page ad taken out innewspaper on Wednesday, timed to coincide with the visit of Australian Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen.
An associated opinion piece published on the Pacific Elders’ website says: “Pacific leaders cannot seriously offer their support to a partner who lacks the genuine courage and integrity to take these steps. Bowen is in Fiji to attend a UN climate meeting, as well as a roundtable with Pacific ministers at which he sought to shore up support for a COP to be hosted by Australia with its Pacific neighbours in 2026.
“But it’s been a good discussion about how fast the transition in Australia is going. And it’s going very, very fast. We have the highest rooftop solar penetration in the world. But we have a lot more to do. All of us have a lot more to do.” During a visit to the Fijian island of Kioa last month the Tuvaluan Minister of Finance and Climate, Seve Paeniu, who is also the Pacific Political Climate Champion for loss and damage, told this masthead: “The impact [of climate change] on our Pacific Island countries … is so severe and devastating that the large emitting countries and those companies that keep burning fossil fuel coal, oil and gas should step up and take more responsibility.
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