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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Daniel Hurst

Coalition should have heeded calls from Pacific to raise climate targets, Simon Birmingham says

The Leader of the Opposition in the Senate Simon Birmingham reacts after a division on second reading of the Territory Rights Bill in the Senate at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, November 24, 2022. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING
Simon Birmingham says it is ‘critical for us to listen carefully and attentively to our Pacific partners’. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

Senior Coalition frontbencher Simon Birmingham has said the former Morrison government was wrong to resist increasing Australia’s 2030 emissions reduction target.

Speaking in Palau, Birmingham said it was “critical for us to listen carefully and attentively to our Pacific partners” and “act in concert with them”. The way Australia conducted its climate debate had not been “ideal for all of our relations”, he said.

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