As the G20 summit closes, Morrison's pants are ablaze

As we head into the COP26 Climate Summit today, we’ve seen weakly-worded climate platitudes from world leaders coming out the preceding G20 conference in Rome, but few new climate commitments. Let’s hope they find their resolve over the next few weeks in Glasgow.

G20’s closer saw Scott Morrison blatantly hijacking the work of the states, territories and businesses, as well as avoided deforestation, to make claims about Australia’s emissions reduction progress. Elsewhere, Morrison’s pants are ablaze, as he’s been called out by French president Emmanuel Macron for lying about the AUKUS nuclear submarines.

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