EndemicEarthling<p>When the <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/GreenClimateFund" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreenClimateFund</span></a> was being established, Australia's Prime Minister was <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/TonyAbbott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TonyAbbott</span></a>, a <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/ClimateDenier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateDenier</span></a>, who had won the 2013 federal election promising to dismantle the baby steps towards a <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/ClimatePolicy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimatePolicy</span></a> the previous <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labor</span></a> government had made.</p><p>So there was little surprise when PM Abbott announced in Nov 2013 that <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a> would be contributing a massive sum of $0 to the Green Climate Fund.</p><p>At the time, he claimed Australia would chip in AU$200m (then =USD$187m) over four years, but since this was merely a rebranding of existing <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/ForeignAid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ForeignAid</span></a>, it clearly didn't count as "new and additional funding", a fact that most journalists blithely ignored, falling for the bait-and-switch. Or we might say instead that the Australian government was overstating its foreign aid commitments by $200m over those years.</p><p>Nonetheless, the four years were soon gone, as was Tony Abbott, as well as his successor <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/MalcolmTurnbull" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MalcolmTurnbull</span></a>, who in turn had been replaced as PM by <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/ScottMorrison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScottMorrison</span></a>. When it came time to pledge again in 2018, Morrison announced Australia would be pulling out of the Green Climate Fund entirely, a path also taken by the <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> administration at the time, whom Morrison was often cribbing notes from when it came to what kinds of <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cruelty</span></a> and <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/selfishness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>selfishness</span></a> he could get away with.<br>5/8</p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a></p>