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On Saturday, Australian Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen will land in Baku with the task of driving the bogged-down finance negotiations to a conclusion, along with his Egyptian counterpart Yasmine Fouad. It is a formidable task. One observer has already likened the current negotiating statement to World War I.
“It is a difficult job, but it is a crucial job,” says Dr Wesley Morgan, climate diplomacy specialist at the University of New South Wales. “It is the grand bargain of the global climate negations. The wealthy nations that put most of the emissions into the atmosphere historically are helping to pay for the developing world to take a cleaner path in future. It is the only hope we have of stabilising the…
