Nov. 20 (UPI) -- The main location for next year's United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP31, will be held in Turkey after leaders at this year's meeting reached a compromise.
Australia dropped its bid to host next year's event, compromising with Turkey to allow the country to host the meeting while an Australian minister will chair the meeting.
Australian leaders were disappointed that Turkey pushed to host the meeting -- although they will still host a pre-COP meeting -- but felt that reaching "consensus" was worth the move.
"It is really disappointing that Turkey's expression to veto the will of the rest of the world to have the event here has resulted in this outcome because we would have done it really well and everyone knows that," South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskus told reporters in Adelaide, Australia.
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