Nations must work together through ‘conflict and crisis’ to reduce climate change risks, Albanese tells OECD

Prime minister, Anthony Albanese, speaks to the media during a press conference before the Nato summit in Madrid. He will give a speech to the OECD in Paris before meeting French president, Emmanuel Macron. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

Australia’s prime minister Anthony Albanese will declare the world must raise ambition to reduce the risks of runaway global heating and cooperate amid national policy differences even when “long shadows of conflict and crisis are threatening our shared security”.

The prime minister will use a speech to a special session of the council of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris to launch a clarion call for international cooperation on climate policy, as well as practical measures to safeguard energy and food security, as the world grapples with disruptions created by the coronavirus pandemic and the war in Ukraine.