On his first full day on the job, Australia's new prime minister mentioned the words "climate change" four times within two minutes of his maiden international speech.
The Australian government is under fire after an extensive report detailing the effects of climate change on its Great Barrier Reef was released Friday.
The Australian government pushed to soften the wording of a major report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world's leading climate science authority, to say the Great Barrier Reef is not yet in crisis.
The G20 scorecard report aims to track each of the G20 countries' progress in ending government support to fossil fuels. See Australia's overall ranking and score.
This study tracks, for the first time, each G20 country's progress on ending support for fossil fuels—ranking their transparency, commitments, and financial support to oil, gas, and coal.