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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Environment
Adam Morton

Australia’s failed bid to host Cop31 looks like a mess – but it may actually be the best result possible

Chris Bowen, Australia's climate change and energy minister, speaks during a session at the Cop30 climate summit in Brazil
The minister for climate change and energy, Chris Bowen, told Cop30 in the Brazilian city of Belem that he was ‘in it to win it’ shortly before Australia’s bid for Cop31 fell apart. Photograph: Fernando Llano/AP

Ouch. From one perspective, Australia’s long-running bid to host the Cop31 UN climate conference next year has ended in clear failure.

It campaigned for more than three years for the right to put on the world’s biggest climate summit and green trade fair, which would have brought tens of thousands of people to the South Australian capital of Adelaide next November.

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