In full-page newspaper ad, current and former leaders call for delay in support for hosting Cop31 until Australia stops pursuing coal and gas projects
A group of Pacific Island elders, including several former national leaders, have taken out a full-page ad in the Fiji Times calling on their countries not to support Australia’s plan to host a UN climate summit until it stops expanding fossil fuels.
The ad on Wednesday by the group the Pacific Elders’ Voice was timed to coincide with a visit to Fiji by the Australian climate change minister, Chris Bowen.
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