Stuff.co.nz reports that The Australian government has used its diplomatic weight in the Pacific to divide small island states in their efforts to lobby for climate action, according to a report by Greenpeace endorsed by former Pacific leaders that has been launched at COP26. Read here and watch video
In a foreword to the report, Pacific Bully and International Outcast, Anote Tong, a former president of Kiribati and an elder statesman of both Pacific and climate change politics, criticises the commitments Australia brought to the UN climate summit in Glasgow.