Australia retreats from Türkiye AGAIN! (COP31 Update)

About this episode

The episode discusses Australia's withdrawal from hosting COP31 and features an interview with climate activist Richie Merzian.

🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ We speak with Richie Merzian who was live on the ground in Belem for COP30, he is big climate nerd who is deep in the civil society movement to bring COP31 to Australia. Sadly — we found out this morning that Australia will not be hosting COP31 in Australia. Rather Türkiye will host with COP31 with Minister Chris Bowen as the President of COP with a leaders meeting pre-COP in a Pacific Island nation to be determined. I'm a little disappointed today — it was going to be such a great moment for Australia to promote South Australia's efforts to decarbonise, to put the Pacific front and centre, and have an international spotlight on Australia as a major exporter of emissions, and put pressure on the government to change that. Anyway — sorry Adelaide — we've cancelled our COP live show, but maybe we'll be down for festival season. Cheers, Dan 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear Here's all the fun stuff you get when you sign up to Patreon. 🎧 Get an ad-free and sponsor free version of the show. 🎟 Get early access and discounts to…

People in this episode

Host: Dan Ilic

Guest: Richie Merzian

Topics covered

• climate change
• COP31
• Australia
• international relations
• environmental policy

Keywords

• COP31
• climate change
• Australia
• Türkiye
• Richie Merzian
• environment
• decarbonisation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: COP31, COP30

Places: Australia, Türkiye, South Australia, Pacific Island

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