Australian prime minister blasts opposition leader over demand to ‘rule out’ compensating other countries for climate crisis

Cop27 summit in Egypt opened with warning countries could either sign a climate solidarity pact, or a collective suicide pact'

The Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has blasted the opposition leader, Peter Dutton, for trying to score a cheap domestic political point" after the Liberal leader used the opening day of the Cop27 UN climate summit to demand Australia not compensate other countries for accumulating climate disasters.

After Antonio Guterres opened the climate conference in Egypt with a stark warning that countries could either sign a climate solidarity pact, or a collective suicide pact", Dutton used the first parliamentary question on Tuesday to demand Albanese rule out signing Australia up to compensating other countries as part of the deal being negotiated at Cop27 in Egypt".