{"id":414435,"date":"2025-11-23T19:24:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T18:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=414435"},"modified":"2025-12-25T01:14:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T00:14:28","slug":"aussie-climate-minister-on-abandoning-cop31-bid-defaulting-to-germany-would-cause-a-lack-of-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=414435","title":{"rendered":"Aussie Climate Minister on Abandoning COP31 Bid: Defaulting to Germany would cause \u201cA lack of leadership\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Aussie Climate Change and Energy Minister\u00a0Chris Bowen<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by<\/strong> Eric Worrall<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aussie climate and energy minister Chris Bowen demonstrating his international diplomacy skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018Can\u2019t have it all\u2019: Australia abandons bid for COP31 climate summit<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published 20 November 2025 6:48pm
Updated 2m ago 6:55pm
By Naveen Razik
Presented by Wing Kuang<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The federal government has abruptly abandoned its bid to host the United Nations climate conference next year, conceding Turkiye will oversee the COP31. The Pacific countries and environmental activists have criticised the federal government\u2019s failure to bring the event to Adelaide.

Australia has withdrawn from its bid to host the United Nations climate conference next year, after three years of competition with Turkiye.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Speaking from Belem where the COP30 is being held, climate change minister Chris Bowen has confirmed COP31 next year won\u2019t be hosted in Adelaide, as Australia has hoped for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo obviously, it would be great if Australia could have it all, but we can\u2019t have it all.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Bowen says the withdrawal is in the best interest of Australia and also the summit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the U-N rules, if Australia and Turkiye couldn\u2019t reach a deal, Germany would have stepped in as the host of the United Nations climate organisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis process works on consensus, and consensus means if someone objects to our bid, it would go to Bonn. That would mean 12 months with a lack of leadership<\/strong>, no COP president in place, no plan, that would be irresponsible for multilateralism and this challenge will\u2026 And don\u2019t want that to happen.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Read more: https:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/news\/podcast-episode\/cant-have-it-all-australia-abandons-bid-for-cop31-climate-summit\/shmhxtcsh<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

You might think it astounding a federal minister would say something like that about a close ally in his quest to slay the carbon dragon, but we Aussies have come to expect no less from our climate minister. I\u2019m sure he didn\u2019t mean Germany is incapable of providing climate leadership. Perhaps the global warming in the Bel\u00e9m<\/a> COP30 conference center is getting to our Chris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On a positive note, I think Australia dodged a bullet having someone else host COP31. Let Turkey endure the pain of hosting all those activists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this Aussie green energy obsession is having real consequences. While the US economy powers ahead, Australia is dropping to the bottom of the league table;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018Australia\u2019s not high-growth\u2019: ANZ boss hits Labor on productivity<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anthony Macdonald<\/a><\/strong> and Luke Kinsella<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Australia\u2019s productivity growth rate since 2019 was ranked second-last<\/a>, above only Mexico, among the wealthy countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economists have warned that low productivity growth was behind the rise in annual underlying inflation to 3 per cent<\/a>, the top of the RBA\u2019s target band, in the September quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI believe the productivity agenda debate we are watching in Australia, which is a collective effort, obviously fostered by the administration \u2026 is certainly the right thing to do,\u201d Matos said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RBA deputy governor Andrew Hauser said at the UBS Australasia Conference this month that the economy was already \u201cboxed in\u201d by its lower supply capacity. \u201cIf we do find ourselves boxed in on the rail in this way, the only escape route is to grow the capacity of the economy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hauser said this would require an uptick in business investment, which had been flat for 18 months. As a share of the economy, investing by businesses in their own productivity is at mid-1990s levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026https:\/\/www.afr.com\/companies\/financial-services\/australia-s-not-high-growth-anz-s-matos-prods-labor-on-productivity-20251121-p5nhho<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Everyone in official circles is talking around Australia\u2019s flatlining economy like it is some kind of big mystery, but with skyrocketing green energy prices flagged as the number one business concern in a recent major survey, it\u2019s not that big a puzzle why the Australian economy is the lame horse in the race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Net Zero Business? Energy Prices Now Aussie Business’ Number One Concern<\/a><\/blockquote>