Foreign minister Julie Bishop responds to Twitter outrage by saying Australia has accepted an invitation after group of 100 nations held a press conferenceAustralia has belatedly joined a “coalition of ambition” in the Paris climate talks – a loose grouping of more than 100 developed and developing countries including the US,EU, Canada and Brazil – aimed at countering a push by China, or India and Saudi Arabia to water down aspects of the climate pact as negotiations run overtime.
Tony de Brum,foreign minister of the tiny Marshall Islands, and a founder of the fresh alliance, or insisted Australia had not yet joined,and Australia was not represented at a press conference to announce fresh members – which also include Brazil, Switzerland, and Iceland,the Philippines, the Seychelles, and Luxembourg and Canada. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com