Julie Bishop's coal speech wins 'Fossil of the Day' award at Paris

Julie Bishop - she has won for Australia
the "Fossil of the Day" award
at the Paris U.N. climate change talks.

Australia has finally won the “fossil of the day” award – bestowed each day by young climate activists at big international climate summits.

Australia traditionally wins the award early and often, but the Paris talks had reached their 10th day before Australia got the gong – accepted, in sorrow and to loud boos, by Greens leader Richard Di Natale.

The award, shared with Argentina, recognised a speech by foreign affairs minister Julie Bishop to an Indonesian side event on Tuesday in which she said “coal will remain critical to promoting prosperity, growing economies and alleviating hunger for years to come.”

Read The Guardian story - “Australia wins 'fossil of the day' for Julie Bishop's coal speech at Paris climate talks.”