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COP26: Leaders’ catastrophic failure on climate shows they have forgotten who they should serve and protect – humanity at large

A split image - on the left, a crowd of school climate strikers. On the right, an image of Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

Leaders have catastrophically betrayed humanity at large by failing to protect people most affected by the climate crisis and instead caving into the interests of fossil fuel and other powerful corporations, Amnesty International said today as the climate conference, COP26, concludes for another year. Following two weeks of negotiations by world leaders in Glasgow, Amnesty’s …

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Amnesty’s priorities for the G20 Summit and COP26

The climate crisis and Covid-19 vaccine inequity are both global human rights emergencies, requiring swift and coordinated responses from the world’s advanced economies, including Australia.