Fact checking Angus Taylor: does Australia have a climate change record to be proud of?

Australians should be proud of the country’s achievements on climate change, energy minister Angus Taylor has argued in a newspaper column that claims “quiet Australians” don’t accept the “shrill cries” of the government’s climate critics.

Angus Taylor speaks at the COP25 climate summit in Madrid. The
 energy minister says Australia has an enviable record on climate
change – the Guardian fact checks his claims.

The column, published in The Australian, makes a series of claims about Australia’s emissions and how they compare to other countries, as well as highlighting exports such as LNG that are “dramatically reducing emissions” in other countries.

So is Australia really a paragon of climate virtue – cutting emissions at home while helping the world to cut emissions?

Read the story from The Guardian by Graham Readfearn - “Fact checking Angus Taylor: does Australia have a climate change record to be proud of?”

Greta Thunberg asks for lift back across Atlantic as climate meeting shifts to Madrid

Greta Thunberg tweeted: ‘It turns out
 I’ve travelled half around the world,
the wrong way.’

As delegates to the COP25 climate summit scramble to adjust to a last-minute change of venue from Santiago to Madrid, one of the highest-profile attendees has stuck out a metaphorical thumb on social media to ask for a lift across the Atlantic.

Teenage Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, who was speaking in California during a stop on her low-emissions journey from Sweden to Chile, tweeted that she was now in need of a ride to Spain.

Thunberg, who refuses to fly because of the carbon emissions involved, had been travelling by boat, train and electric car when the new venue was announced.

Read the story from The Guardian - “Greta Thunberg asks for lift back across Atlantic as climate meeting shifts to Madrid."