Australia will not block Turkey’s bid to host the COP climate conference next year, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has declared, as he shifts his focus to pushing for Pacific nations to benefit from the event.

Both Australia and Turkey have been vying to host the event under rules that require unanimity to pick a destination, raising the spectre the event would revert to the German city of Bonn in a scenario that Albanese said in WA on Tuesday was bad for unity on climate.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s move to rule out a veto means Turkey will host COP if it persists with its bid and no other nation intervenes. Credit: Sam Mooy

Albanese said Australia would advocate for a separate leaders meeting on climate change to be held in the Pacific and more money for a resiliency fund f

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