While other countries have made additional pledges, Australia criticised for failing to offer more than its budget commitments
for failing to offer more than its existing budget commitments despite the environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, using the summit to push for tougher targets on halting extinctions and protecting land and sea areas., who has been attending the summit, said she was disappointed “no money from Australia was put on the table to help those negotiations come along”.
“It’s been disappointing to see Australia hasn’t contributed yet. In these final hours of the negotiations, I urge the Australian government to help keep ambition high by putting some more money on the table to help.”Foundation, is also in Montreal, where there are concerns the final text of the agreement will fail to include targets to halt extinctions immediately or by 2030.
O’Shanassy said “money is essential to ending extinction, so it’s disappointing that there were no new funding commitments from Australia at Cop15”. “Both France and Germany have made new funding commitments and there’s still time for Australia to step up and do the same.”
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