As we mentioned a little earlier, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Simon Stiell is in Australia and will meet with Chris Bowen later today to discuss Australia’s climate targets.

You would have to imagine Australia’s lack of ambition will be the main talking point. We are doing the bare minimum and still looking to open up more fossil fuel sites, which is the exact opposite of what the science is telling us to do.

Stiell spoke to ABC radio’s Sally Sara this morning about the ‘challenge’:

Science tells us we need to transition away from all fossil fuels as rapidly as possible. So, yes, addressing your own domestic emissions is part of it, but exporting carbon emissions also needs to be addressed. And there we need to look at that global picture in terms of not just the supply of fossil fuels, but it is cutting our dependency demand for fossil fuels. And that requires, again, global effort.