{"id":25269,"date":"2020-12-01T13:12:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T04:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/01\/pacific-leaders-condemn-australias-weak-climate-target-in-open-letter-to-scott-morrison"},"modified":"2020-12-01T13:12:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T04:12:10","slug":"pacific-leaders-condemn-australias-weak-climate-target-in-open-letter-to-scott-morrison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25269","title":{"rendered":"Pacific leaders condemn Australia&#8217;s &#8216;weak&#8217; climate target in open letter to Scott Morrison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen eminent signatories urge Canberra to commit to net-zero emissions by 2050<\/p>\n<p>Pacific leaders have condemned Australia\u2019s Paris climate target as \u201cone of the weakest\u201d, urging Canberra to commit to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and abandon its Kyoto carryover credits.<\/p>\n<p>Fourteen Pacific leaders, including former presidents and prime ministers, foreign ministers, archbishops and other church leaders, have penned an open leader to the prime minister, Scott Morrison, \u201cas Pacific Islander leaders whose homelands and cultures face certain devastation from climate change\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/01\/pacific-leaders-condemn-australias-weak-climate-target-in-open-letter-to-scott-morrison\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen eminent signatories urge Canberra to commit to net-zero emissions by 2050Pacific leaders have condemned Australia\u2019s Paris climate target as \u201cone of the weakest\u201d, urging Canberra to commit to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and abandon its Ky&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1402,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,645,324,326,1066,65,436,564,591,874,581,267,386,282,563,323,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-australian-politics","category-climate-change","category-coronavirus","category-environment","category-fiji","category-greenhouse-gas-emissions","category-kiribati","category-pacific-islands","category-pacific-islands-forum","category-papua-new-guinea","category-scott-morrison","category-south-pacific","category-tuvalu","category-vanuatu","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25270,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25269\/revisions\/25270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}