Badge check: who Australia lets into climate negotiations
As President of Negotiations for COP31, Australia has an immediate opportunity to lead. Its role in building consensus and advancing negotiations brings a responsibility to demonstrate transparent and accountable practices in its own delegation, while championing stronger safeguards across the UN climate process. Australia should act before COP31 to turn its commitment to integrity into practical measures that advance climate action.
Yet Australia’s own delegation reflects this enduring integrity gap, granting organisations affiliated with fossil fuel interests access to UN climate talks through Party Overflow badges.