{"id":7036,"date":"2019-08-14T06:17:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T21:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/14\/australia-coal-pacific-tension-scott-morrison-forum"},"modified":"2019-08-14T06:17:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T21:17:31","slug":"australias-coal-use-sharpens-pacific-tension-as-scott-morrison-arrives-for-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=7036","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s coal use sharpens Pacific tension as Scott Morrison arrives for forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuvalu PM says no amount of funding makes up for Australia\u2019s failure to cut emissions <\/p>\n<p>The scene has been set for tense discussions in Tuvalu as Scott Morrison arrives on Wednesday, after his announcement of $500m in climate funding for the Pacific fell flat, with regional leaders saying that no matter how much money Australia put forward there was no excuse for not reducing emissions and closing coalmines.<\/p>\n<p>Though the Australian prime minister was not present for the start of the Pacific Islands Forum leaders\u2019 meeting on Tuesday, his country\u2019s presence at the forum has already been strongly felt, with Pacific leaders pointedly calling for Australia to transition rapidly away from coal use.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/14\/australia-coal-pacific-tension-scott-morrison-forum\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuvalu PM says no amount of funding makes up for Australia\u2019s failure to cut emissions The scene has been set for tense discussions in Tuvalu as Scott Morrison arrives on Wednesday, after his announcement of $500m in climate funding for the Pacific fell&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":361,"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":[41,43,326,589,65,492,602,581,386,282,563,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-climate-change","category-coal","category-environment","category-fossil-fuels","category-marshall-islands","category-pacific-islands-forum","category-scott-morrison","category-south-pacific","category-tuvalu","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\/7036","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\/361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7039,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7036\/revisions\/7039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}