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Australia's Scott Morrison says may skip Glasgow global climate summit
The world's biggest coal exporter by value, and still reliant on fossil fuels for most of its electricity, Australia has not made a firm commitment on its own greenhouse gas reductions.
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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison (center) sits between Brendan Murphy (left), Chief Medical Officer of Australia, and the Premier of New South Wales Gladys Berejiklian, during a media conference after the Meeting of the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) at Parramatta Stadium, in western Sydney on March 13, 2020. (AFP/David Gray)
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ustralian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, under pressure to adopt a 2050 net-zero carbon emissions target, said in an interview published Monday that he may not join this year's landmark UN climate summit in Glasgow.
The world's biggest coal exporter by value, and still reliant on fossil fuels for most of its electricity, Australia has not made a firm commitment on its own greenhouse gas reductions.
Morrison has vowed to mine and export fossil fuels as long as there are buyers.
Asked about attending the global climate crisis conference in November, Morrison told the West Australian newspaper: "We have not made any final decisions".
"I mean it is another trip overseas and I have been on several this year and spent a lot of time in quarantine," he was quoted as saying by AFP.
"I have to focus on things here and with Covid. Australia will be opening up around that time. There will be a lot of issues to manage and I have to manage those competing demands."
The 12-day meeting in Scotland, the biggest climate conference since landmark talks in Paris in 2015, is seen as a crucial step in setting worldwide emissions targets to slow global warming.
