能源部长克里斯·鲍文回避了相关提问。此前，安东尼·阿尔巴尼斯在出席完COP前太平洋气候峰会后便离开了现场，未接受媒体提问；与此同时，各岛国领导人正呼吁各方切实履行气候承诺。鲍文还试图转移话题，以淡化周二发生的一件尴尬事件——当时阿尔巴尼斯拒绝了图瓦卢人赠送的传统头饰。“事实上，头饰是有人主动送给我的。据我所知，接受这样的礼物完全无可厚非，”鲍文说道，“我们目前的重点是海平面上升问题以及气候变化对图瓦卢产生的影响，这也是我目前所关注的。”
Energy Minister Chris Bowen has sidestepped questions Anthony Albanese left the pre-COP Pacific climate event before taking questions from the media as island leaders call for follow-through on climate pledges. Mr Bowen also sought to deflect focus from an awkward interaction on Tuesday during which Mr Albanese declined a traditional Tuvaluan headdress. “Look, it was offered to me. I accepted it, I’m advised (that is) perfectly acceptable to do so,” Mr Bowen said. “And we’re focused on issues of sea level rise and the impacts of (climate change) on Tuvalu which is what I’m focused on.”
据《澳大利亚人报》报道，周三，阿尔巴尼斯及大部分媒体人员离开斐济后，鲍文才向媒体发表讲话。他提到自己在此次峰会期间已举办过两次新闻发布会。“各国领导人彼此交流密切，而我则在此回答大家的提问，明天我们还会继续这样做，”他说道。此次COP前峰会历时多日，在图瓦卢与斐济两地举行，共有50多个国家的代表出席。
Mr Bowen addressed the media after Mr Albanese and much of the press pack left Fiji on Wednesday. He noted he had held two press conferences during the event. “Leaders are engaged with each other, I’m here answering questions and we’ll do it again tomorrow,” he said, according to The Australia. The pre-COP event, spread over multiple days in Tuvalu and Fiji and attended by representatives from more than 50 countries, was marred by controversy long before it got under way on Monday, with the Coalition lambasting the expenditure after Australia’s failed co-bid to host COP31.
早在周一峰会开幕前，该活动便饱受争议：由于澳大利亚联合申办COP31的计划最终落空，反对党联盟便对举办此次峰会所耗费的经费大加抨击。自由党资深议员迈克尔·麦考马克周二称此次峰会不过是“又一场空谈会”罢了。虽然鲍文表示“我们当然希望取得更多成果”，并将此次峰会称作“迈出的第一步”，但他仍为其成果进行了辩护：“此次峰会旨在推动COP31的顺利举行……我认为我们的努力有效提升了太平洋地区对COP31的关注度，这一点我们确实做到了。”
Liberal frontbencher Michael McCormack described it on Tuesday as “another gabfest”. While Mr Bowen said “you could always hope for more” and described the event as “a first step”, he also defended its outcomes. “This is about COP31 … and I think our effort has been to increase the Pacific focus on COP31, and we’ve managed to do that,” he said.
鲍文还提到，尼泊尔遭受严重洪灾数月后，其外交部长也出席了此次峰会，而那场洪灾已被证实与气候变化密切相关。
Mr Bowen also noted Nepal’s Foreign Minister was present at the event months after devastating flood there that have since been linked to climate change.
矿业上诉被驳回 澳大利亚高等法院作出裁决，支持霍纳特谷地区的一个民间团体。这是澳大利亚有史以来首例由最高法庭审理的气候变化相关案件。
Mine appeal dismissed The High Court has ruled in favour of a Hunter Valley community group in Australia’s first climate change case in the country’s highest court.
在一项具有里程碑意义的判决中，高等法院维持了新南威尔士州上诉法院的一致裁决，即独立规划委员会在批准MACH Energy在该州亨特谷地区扩建芒特普莱森特煤矿时未能履行强制性法律义务。该委员会未能考虑矿山出口的污染可能如何影响该地区，包括通过增加丛林火灾风险和极端高温。“委员会有义务考虑是否在有条件的情况下授予同意，以确保所有温室气体排放，包括范围3温室气体排放，在可行的最大程度上最大限度地减少。上诉法院的结论并非如此，”高等法院裁定。
In a landmark judgment, the High Court upheld the unanimous NSW Court of Appeal ruling that the independent Planning Commission had failed a mandatory legal obligation when it approved the expansion of MACH Energy’s Mount Pleasant coalmine in the state’s Hunter Valley region. The commission had failed to consider how pollution from mine exports might affect the region, including through increased bushfire risks and extreme heat. “The commission was obliged to consider whether to grant consent subject to conditions to ensure that all GHG emissions, including scope 3 GHG emissions, are minimised to the greatest extent practicable. The Court of Appeal erred in finding otherwise,” the High Court ruled.
高等法院在判决中指出，MACH Energy和该案的任何其他当事方都不应授予减排条件。此案可能为如何根据潜在气候影响来判断此类项目树立一个全国先例。该项目还将被送回新南威尔士州土地和环境法院或委员会进行评估。“推动全球行动”阿尔巴尼斯在周二领导人论坛开幕词中表示，澳大利亚“坚定地致力于太平洋”，并为该地区低洼岛国提供“他们应得的平台来讲述和塑造他们的故事，以推动全球行动”。
In its judgment, the High Court noted neither MACH Energy nor any other party to the case had submitted approval should be granted with conditions to reduce emissions. The case could set a national precedent as to how such projects are judged on the basis of potential climate impacts. The project will also be sent back to the NSW Land and Environment Court or the commission for assessment. ‘Drive global action’ In his opening remarks before Tuesday’s leaders’ forum, Mr Albanese said Australia was “strongly committed to the Pacific” and to giving the region’s low-lying island nations “the platform that they deserve to tell and shape their story in order to drive global action”.
“在国内，澳大利亚正在采取行动。从让我们的家庭和企业通电到迅速增加我们的可再生能源供应，”他说。“去年12月季度，我们首次让可再生能源提供一半以上的能源供应。这是一个季度的能源消耗量比以往任何时候都多。在相对较短的时间内，它展示了可以做什么。”作为729万澳元一揽子计划的一部分，澳大利亚将寻求加速在该地区推广可再生能源，包括一项支持瓦努阿图转型的新协议。
“At home, Australia is acting. From electrifying our homes and businesses to rapidly increasing our renewable energy supply,” he said. “In the December quarter of last year was the first time that we had renewable energy provide more than half of our energy supply. And that was in the quarter in which there was more energy use than any previously. In a relatively short period of time, it shows what can be done.”As part of a $7.29m package, Australia will seek to accelerate the rollout of renewable energy across the region, including a new agreement to support Vanuatu’s transition.
还宣布了一笔单独的300万美元投资，以帮助太平洋社区保护基础设施免受气候变化的影响。领导人们还在图瓦乌签署了《塔库·帕卡索阿减速宣言》，旨在保持《巴黎协定》的全球变暖目标“活着”，并认可太平洋在巩固各国承担气候行动义务（包括在国际法院咨询意见方面）中的作用。斐济总理西蒂文尼·拉布卡以他的“和平洋”和气候行动协议为例，表示这是向世界展示多边主义能够应对这一挑战的机会。
A separate $3m investment was also announced to help Pacific communities protect infrastructure from the impacts of climate change. Leaders also signed the Taku Pakasoa Deceleration in Tuvalu that sought to keep “alive” Paris Agreement global warming targets as well as recognise the Pacific’s role in cementing states’ obligation to undertake climate action, including at the International Court of Justice Advisory. Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka pitched his Ocean of Peace and agreements on climate action as a chance to “show the world multilateralism can rise to this challenge”.
“我们可以勇敢行事，因为科学站在我们这边。技术已经准备就绪，我们人民的未来取决于我们，”他说。
“We can be bold because science is on our side. Technology is ready, and our people’s future relies on us,” he said.
拉布卡先生敦促图瓦乌达成的协议作为“评估我们在气候行动上努力的代理指标”。
Mr Rabuka urged that agreements struck in Tuvalu be a “proxy for evaluating our efforts” on climate action.
“我们必须在五年后问自己：‘图瓦乌是否获得了所需的支持，以扩展他们已经开始的沿海保护工作？’”“因此，今晚，我请求我们做出必要的承诺，保护我们中间最小和最大的人们。”
“我们毫无疑义地表明，我们致力于遏制超越我们的法律义务和道德目标的行为。”
“We must ask in five years’ time: ‘Has Tuvalu received the support needed to expand the coastal protection efforts that they have begun?’ “So tonight, I ask that we make the commitment needed to protect both the smallest and the largest among us. “That we signal unequivocally that we are committed to curtailing the overshoot that contravenes our legal obligations and moral objectives.”