Australia has formally dumped its bid to host next year’s United Nations COP31 climate summit in Adelaide and ceded the event to rival Turkey.
In return for the Turks hosting the summit in the resort region of Antalya, the Albanese government has proposed that Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen shares the presidency of the event with Turkey and that there be a pre-COP summit in the Pacific to act as pledging event towards a Pacific Resilience Fund, an Australian initiative.
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