Australia has successfully lobbied UNESCO to not list The Great Barrier Reef in the 'in danger list'.
Why is this related to China? Because not long ago, the Morrison regime is accusing China, the current host of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee of influencing the committee to play politics.
Actually its the scientists and environmentalists who were the actual ones calling for the listing of the GBR into the 'in danger list'.
The Greenpeace Australia Pacific chief executive, David Ritter, said under the world heritage convention “the Australian government promised the world it would do its utmost to protect the reef - instead it has done its utmost to hide the truth.”
“This is a victory for one of the most cynical lobbying efforts in recent history. This is not an achievement – it is a day of infamy for the Australian government,” Ritter said.
Ahead of Friday’s meeting, the Australian government had conducted a fierce campaign to block the danger listing. More than a dozen ambassadors flew from Canberra to Cairns, Queensland, for a
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So politics triumph over science again. Who cares about years of research by scientists about the vulnerability of the GBR? All you need to do campaign like hell, invite ambassadors on a snorkeling trip, and blame China. GBR is 'no longer in danger'. So practically any international institution can be bought and coerced these days.
If this reminds you of the joke the WHO Covid-19 virus origin tracing has become right now, it is.