Scott Morrison resists calls to withdraw from Paris climate agreement

Scott Morrison has resisted conservatives’ calls to withdraw Australia from the Paris climate agreement but ruled out providing more money to the global climate fund.

 Scott Morrison says there’s nothing to be gained
 from ripping up the Paris climate agreement.

The prime minister made the comments on 2GB Radio on Monday, before the release of a Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, which is expected to call for a phaseout of coal power generation to help limit temperature rises to 1.5C.

Morrison repeated his claim that Australia would meet its Paris emissions reduction target “in a canter”, despite environment department figures showing emissions increased 1.3% in the year to March 2018, suggesting Australia is likely to miss the target.

Read the story by Paul Karp from The Guardian - “Scott Morrison resists calls to withdraw from Paris climate agreement.”