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Australia is at risk of taking the wrong tack at the Glasgow climate talks, and slamming China is only part of it

  • Written by Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
Australia is at risk of taking the wrong tack at the Glasgow climate talks, and slamming China is only part of itJoeLogan/Shutterstock

Buried within the prime minister’s response to the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is just about everything we’re at risk of getting wrong at the Glasgow climate talks in October.

After slamming China — whose emissions per person are half of Australia’s — for not...

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