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Pacific advocates hope their climate ambitions can still be achieved from the wreckage of Australia's bid to host the COP31 summit.

The agreement ends a two-year stand-off between Australia and Turkey, both of which had bid to host Cop31

Suggestions hosting a global climate summit could cost Australian taxpayers more than $2 billion have been rejected by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

With just days before the next host of the world's biggest climate conference must be decided, Australia is doing all it can to secure its bid.

The opposition leader maintains the Liberals care about the environment and cutting emissions as she hits the road to sell a watered-down climate policy.

It was the news that rippled around the nation – and then the world: at least three hours of free grid-supplied electricity for Australian households, every day.

The main event of the two-week United Nations COP30 summit comes at a pivotal time for global action on climate change.

Liberal MPs insist leader’s position safe for now after senior senator says Ley ‘losing support’

Ten years on from the landmark Paris Agreement, countries have taken big strides in limiting emissions and the clean energy transition is accelerating rapidly. But geopolitical headwinds are growing and the damage bill for climate pollution is rising. Climate action hangs in the balance.