During the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Samoa, several Pacific island nations have called on Australia to take more significant steps in phasing out fossil fuel exports. The leaders of Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and Fiji have supported a new report from the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative, which highlights the substantial role that Australia, Canada, and the U.K. play in global emissions.
The report reveals that fossil fuels extracted in these three nations have accounted for 60% of emissions from such extraction across Commonwealth countries since 1990, despite representing only 6% of the Commonwealth's population. It also points out the stark imbalance in fossil fuel extraction and criticizes the contradiction between the climate pledges made by these countries and their efforts to expand fossil fuel production, particularly in Australia and Canada.
