With the Paris Agreement on limiting emissions showing major signs of wear and tear, Prime Minister Scott Morrison may feel he has enough electoral credit from his surprise election win to revisit Australia’s obligations under that agreement.
In the latest of a series of blows to the Paris deal, Brazil, which has the sixth-largest greenhouse footprint of the agreement’s 173 signatory countries, has cancelled a climate summit that was due to be held in August in Salvador.
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