Canberra dragging the chain, says UN climate chief
11 May 2015
By CATHY ALEXANDER.- Sigmund Freud would have had a field day with the speech by United Nations climate change chief Christiana Figueres to a Melbourne summit on greenhouse emissions reductions. Because what was most interesting was not what she did say, but what she didn’t.
Figueres praised what Europe has done on climate targets, as well as commending pledges from the United States and Mexico on emissions. China had made an “amazing commitment”. Gabon got the tick. Even oil-rich Saudi Arabia was praised.
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