Australia’s Pacific role challenged in climate row | The Malaysian Insight

A man rides a motorbike through a puddle of water in Funafuti, Tuvalu, 13 August 2019, a country at risk of rising ocean temperatures decimating fishery stocks, which Tuvalu relies on for subsistence. – EPA pic, August 19, 2019.

INFLUENTIAL Pacific island leaders have called for Australia to be ousted from the region’s main regional grouping, criticising Canberra’s “neo-colonial” attitudes and refusal to take urgent action on climate change. It comes after Australia was accused of muzzling leaders who wanted to use last week’s Pacific Islands Forum in Tuvalu to issue a global call for action on climate change ahead of UN-sponsored talks in New York next month.

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