{"id":1524,"date":"2014-11-13T06:42:42","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T11:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1524"},"modified":"2014-11-13T06:42:42","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T11:42:42","slug":"coal-versus-climate-in-australia-features-al-jazeera-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1524","title":{"rendered":"Coal versus climate in Australia &#8211; Features &#8211; Al Jazeera English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/features\/2014\/11\/coal-versus-climate-australia-2014111012491252509.html\">Coal versus climate in Australia &#8211; Features &#8211; Al Jazeera English<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Australia continues to frustrate efforts by fellow G20 members to include climate change on the agenda at the upcoming leaders&#8217; summit in the eastern city of Brisbane this weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">As the host nation sets the\u00a0<strong><a class=\"internallink\" style=\"color: #fb9d04; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/asia-pacific\/2014\/02\/g20-vows-boost-world-economy-2tn-20142237305325455.html\" target=\"_blank\">G20 meeting&#8217;s agenda<\/a><\/strong>, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott &#8211;\u00a0<strong><a class=\"internallink\" style=\"color: #fb9d04; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/asia-pacific\/2014\/07\/australia-repeals-unpopular-carbon-tax-2014717314311476.html\" target=\"_blank\">an avowed sceptic<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0of human-caused climate change &#8211; has resisted calls for global warming to be discussed when world leaders gather on November 15 and 16.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Despite a recent official draft summary of proceedings appearing to make\u00a0<strong><a class=\"internallink\" style=\"color: #fb9d04; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/nov\/02\/g20-australia-makes-token-concession-on-climate-change-after-us-lobbying\" target=\"_blank\">token references<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to climate change, the level of importance afforded to the issue remains unclear.\u00a0Climate change was on the agenda at the previous eight G20 summits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Since forming the government in September 2013, Abbott has repealed Australia&#8217;s nascent emissions trading scheme and slashed funding to agencies and programmes promoting renewable energy and the environment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coal versus climate in Australia &#8211; Features &#8211; Al Jazeera English. Australia continues to frustrate efforts by fellow G20 members to include climate change on the agenda at the upcoming leaders&#8217; summit in the eastern city of Brisbane this weekend. As the host nation sets the\u00a0G20 meeting&#8217;s agenda, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott &#8211;\u00a0an avowed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[41,141,344,801],"class_list":["post-1524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-australia","tag-climate-change","tag-g20","tag-tony-abbott"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1525,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions\/1525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}