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| Foreign Minister Julie Bishop will represent Australia at the pre-Paris talks in Lima, Peru. |
An endgame with
world-side consequences is afoot.
World leaders prevaricate, procrastinate and ponder all looking
helpless and befuddled as nature, adhering to an absolutely understandably
science, marches inexorably on.
Australia is not insulated from this time-wasting quibbling rather;
it is the champion of the world’s back-pedallers having disabled what climate
change mitigation infrastructure it had, introduced ineffective Direct Action
legislation and worked hard, and although it has failed, to convince Australians
that climate change matters only to academics and of no interest or concern of
the ordinary person.
In the shadow of this perverse behaviour, Australia’s
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, will arrive in the Peruvian capital, Lima,
tomorrow (Tuesday, December 10) for a UN meeting at which 150 countries will
attempt to establish guidelines for a major Paris meeting next year at which
the aim is to set an international climate policy for the post-Kyoto years,
from 2020.
To her credit, Minister Bishop appears acutely conscious of
the political consequences of not attending to climate change matters and
sensing the importance of attending conference, challenged the PM, Tony Abbott,
who had decreed she should not attend.
The Age tells the
story in a report headed: “Julie Bishop outflanks Prime Minister Tony Abbott on climate change conference”.
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