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Tony Abbott's Government wins Colossal Fossil award at UN Climate Change Talks

Submitted by theverb on Sat, 23/11/2013 - 5:29pm

By Mim DiNapoli, photo by David Tong.

Australia has taken out the Climate Action Network's prestigious award of Colossal Fossil for 2013. This came as a shock to nobody following the leaderboard, as most punters had placed their bets on the land of girt by sea. You can read more here at the Climate Action Network.

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Australia wins Fossil awards for repeal of carbon pricing and abandoning neighbors on loss and damage

Submitted by takver on Sat, 16/11/2013 - 12:26am

Just four days in to the United Nations climate negotiations in Warsaw and Australia are winning our 3rd Fossil award for abandoning our neighbours on loss and damage, and our 2nd fossil award for the first country to attempt to wind back an established carbon pricing mechanism. Earlier in the week Australia earnt it's first rebuke by civil society at UN climate change talks for not putting forward any new finance commitments at the Warsaw negotiations.

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Australia coming home strongly as one of the worst climate Fossils

Submitted by takver on Fri, 18/12/2009 - 1:37pm

On Thursday Dec 17 Australia picked up a 1st place fossil award for Bullying Tuvalu and Other Small Island States. In addition it shared 2nd and 3rd place with Canada, and Japan because of our inability to even keep up with the US on long-term climate finance.

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Australia collects second Fossil award over climate financing

Submitted by takver on Fri, 18/12/2009 - 3:46am

The 9th Fossil of the day award was announced with Australia as part of the Umbrella group winning 2nd place. The satirical awards are a popular event presented by Climate Action Network activists.'Fossil of The Day' awards are given to the countries who perform the worst during the past day's negotiations at UN climate change conferences. (Youtube Video)