{"id":66474,"date":"2024-08-29T14:23:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T05:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/29\/pacific-islands-forum-pif-albanese-tuvalu-fossi-fuels"},"modified":"2024-08-29T14:23:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T05:23:21","slug":"immoral-and-unacceptable-tuvalu-calls-on-australia-to-set-urgent-deadline-to-end-fossil-fuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66474","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Immoral and unacceptable\u2019: Tuvalu calls on Australia to set urgent deadline to end fossil fuels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A day after agreement was ratified at the Pacific Island Forum, the country\u2019s climate minister says \u2018root cause of climate change\u2019 must be addressed<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2024\/aug\/29\/australia-news-live-pacific-policing-earthquake-tourism-metro-gas-power-energy-renting-housing-cost-of-living\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/article\/2024\/aug\/14\/breaking-news-alerts-australia-guardian-email-newsletter?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tuvalu\u2019s climate minister has declared that \u201copening, subsidising and exporting fossil fuels is immoral and unacceptable\u201d, just a day after Australia ratified a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2023\/nov\/10\/tuvalu-residency-and-security-treaty-what-is-it-and-why-is-australia-doing-it\">climate and security deal<\/a> with the low-lying Pacific nation.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, welcomed the agreement with Tuvalu on Wednesday, saying Pacific island countries were \u201cfully aware of the commitment that we have to climate action\u201d but gas would continue to play a role.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/article\/2024\/aug\/14\/breaking-news-alerts-australia-guardian-email-newsletter?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s breaking news email<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/29\/pacific-islands-forum-pif-albanese-tuvalu-fossi-fuels\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day after agreement was ratified at the Pacific Island Forum, the country\u2019s climate minister says \u2018root cause of climate change\u2019 must be addressedFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4391,"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":[41,43,2331,65,874,581,563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-climate-crisis","category-environment","category-pacific-islands","category-pacific-islands-forum","category-tuvalu"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66474","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\/4391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66475,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66474\/revisions\/66475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}