Australia says climate change goals absent from proposed UK free trade deal
Australia’s government confirmed that it refused to allow climate change goals to be written into a proposed free trade deal with Britain, as pressure mounts on it to make more ambitious commitments to cut carbon emissions.
The country’s prime minister Scott Morrison said the trade deal under negotiation with Britain was not the document to include UN goals to limit global warming to 2C (3.6F) above pre-industrial temperatures, and preferably to 1.5C (2.7F)
