{"id":72082,"date":"2025-06-03T13:49:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T04:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/03\/vanuatu-criticises-australia-for-extending-gas-project-while-making-cop31-bid"},"modified":"2025-06-03T13:49:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T04:49:14","slug":"vanuatu-criticises-australia-for-extending-gas-project-while-making-cop31-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72082","title":{"rendered":"Vanuatu criticises Australia for extending gas project while making Cop31 bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Climate minister says greenlighting North West Shelf project until 2070 is not the leadership Pacific countries expect as Australia seeks to host summit<\/p>\n<p>Vanuatu\u2019s climate minister has expressed disappointment over Australia\u2019s decision to extend one of the world\u2019s biggest liquefied natural gas projects and said it raises questions over its bid to co-host the Cop31 summit with Pacific nations.<\/p>\n<p>The UN is expected to announce which country will host the major climate summit in the coming weeks, with Australia pushing for the event to be held in Adelaide as part of a \u201cPacific Cop\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/03\/vanuatu-criticises-australia-for-extending-gas-project-while-making-cop31-bid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate minister says greenlighting North West Shelf project until 2070 is not the leadership Pacific countries expect as Australia seeks to host summitVanuatu\u2019s climate minister has expressed disappointment over Australia\u2019s decision to extend one of t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4040,"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":[41,43,2331,65,874,323,3328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-climate-crisis","category-environment","category-pacific-islands","category-vanuatu","category-woodside"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72082","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\/4040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72083,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72082\/revisions\/72083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}