Prime Minister Scott Morrison says his appearance at the COP26 climate summit served as a platform to clearly outline Australia’s commitments to tackling the “very real threat” posed by climate change.
Speaking to journalists after departing Glasgow, Mr Morrison vowed to support developing countries in the region to combat global warming, reiterating a pledge to develop greener technology.
“Australia was able to go there and outline very clearly not just what our commitments were,” he said.
“Australia always meets and beats our commitments when it comes to addressing the very real threat of climate change - not just in terms of emissions reduction but support for developing countries, particularly in our own part of the world our Pacific family and Southeast Asia, to deal with the adaptation challenges they have right now.
“Australia has been a leader in that area of providing that support for resilience in developing countries and that has also been an important part of COP26, which is of course about reducing emissions but it’s also about dealing with the impacts right now.
“It’s about technology enabling us working principally through the private sector now, which will carry so much of this because it’s the entrepreneurs, it’s the industrialists, it’s the financiers working together with the scientists and researchers that will be delivering those technological solutions on the ground.
“Our technology led approach was well received by all of those I spoke with. They understand, like we understand, that if we want to actually deal with this, you must drive the costs of low emission technologies down.
“And so Australia’s case at COP was very much about supporting them to assure that they can achieve what I know they will achieve but they’ll need to be able to do it with the technology that gets them there and Australia intends to be at the forefront of delivering that technology.”
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