Pacific leaders plead with Australia to drop plans to carry over emissions credits
by Adam Morton Environment editor from Environment | The Guardian on (#4M9FA)
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Pacific leaders have called on Australia to abandon plans to use carry-over credits to meet Paris climate targets and to immediately stop new coalmining, warning some of their countries could be uninhabitable as soon as 2030.
In a strongly worded statement issued at the end of a Pacific Islands development forum in Fiji, the leaders said they were deeply concerned about a lack of "comprehension, ambition or commitment" from developed nations despite the climate crisis posing grave consequences for their people.
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