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Australia has been labelled 'a great disappointment to the rest of the world' for clinging to coal-fired power, potentially putting its trading partnerships in peril.
It declined to sign up to a commitment to cut methane emissions 30 per cent this decade or a separate agreement to phase out coal-fired power at the COP26 summit in Glasgow.
The chair of the UK Committee on Climate Change, Lord Deben, warned Australia's laggard pace on the issue put its trading partnerships at risk.
'(It is) a great disappointment to the rest of the world that so good a country with so much history should have been so much behind on these issues,' he told ABC radio on Monday.
Prince Charles greets Scott Morrison ahead of their bilateral meeting on November 2 (above)
'Already, the British-Australian trade deal is under huge pressure in this country because we don't see why we should import things from Australia unless Australia meets the same standards.
