Julie Bishop calls for climate change consensus ahead of election

Hong Kong | Former deputy Liberal leader Julie Bishop has revived calls for the Coalition to secure bipartisan support with Labor on energy policy and resolve divisions within the party on climate change ahead of the federal election as she urged voters not to "write us off”.

Former deputy Liberal leader Julie Bishop has revived
 calls for the Coalition to secure bipartisan support
with Labor on energy policy, and resolve differences
 within the party on climate change.

In a speech to the Hong Kong business community on Friday, Ms Bishop will also stress the conundrum facing politicians pitching to an electorate comfortable with decades of economic comfort and divided over whether the government was interfering too much or doing too little.

Ms Bishop singled out energy policy and climate change as being at the heart of political disruption in Australia, noting the National Energy Guarantee was the closest the Coalition had come to achieving consensus with Labor.

Read the story from the Financial Review by Michael Smith - “Julie Bishop calls for climate change consensus ahead of election.”

Pope to address oil majors in Vatican climate conference

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican will host executives of the world's top oil companies for a conference next week on climate change and the transition away from fossil fuels, a Vatican source said on Friday.

Pope Francis arrives to lead the Wednesday general audience
 in Saint Peter's square at the Vatican, May 23, 2018. 

Pope Francis, who wrote a major document on protection of the environment from global warming in 2015, is expected to address the group on the last day of the June 8-9 conference.

The conference, organized by the University of Notre Dame in the United States, is expected to be attended by the heads or senior executives of companies including Exxon Mobil, Eni, BP, Royal Dutch Shell and Pemex, the source said.

Read story from Reuters by Philip Pullella - “Pope to address oil majors in Vatican climate conference.”