Kevin Rudd: 'Jury is out' on Malcolm Turnbull at Paris climate talks

Talking to Guardian Australia, the former PM reflects on Copenhagen accord and an '180-degree' shift in China's position on globally binding agreement

The Copenhagen climate summit in 2009 contributed to the demise of Kevin Rudd's first prime ministership. But Rudd, back for the Paris summit of 2015, insists Copenhagen wasn't quite the failure it was made out to be.

He says his views on global warming haven't changed and that unlike other, unnamed, colleagues from his time in office, his attendance in Paris proves that his interest in the issue of global warming has not wavered.