How rich countries dodged the climate change blame game in COP 19

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Don’t miss Graham Readfearn’s wrap up of COP 19 in Warsaw for The Guardian Australia. He tells how rich countries dodged the climate change blame game and how Australia has been criticised for slowing down the process of addressing climate change.

The story also flags the Green Climate Fund which now has a board including one Australian, Rod Hilton who is associated with AusAID through his work as Assistant Director General for International Development Policy & Financing Branch in Canberra.

Read the full story here.

About Graham Readfearn

Graham Readfearn is a Brisbane-based journalist. He launched his first blog – GreenBlog – for The Courier-Mail in June 2008, writing more than 650 posts and moderating in excess of 14,000 comments before resigning in February 2010. Since then, his work has been featured in many publications, including ABC Environment, Green Lifestyle magazine, The Drum, ECOS, bmag, Independent Australia, Crikey and The Guardian. He regularly blogs at DeSmogBlog, on The Guardian Planet Oz blog and tweets @readfearn. Checkout his website here.

Other media on COP 19 can be found here:

COP 19 has ended with progress on some issues
COP 19 race to the bottom
COP 19: UN official says coal industry must change
Warsaw talks – climate action is failing

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