Live: Climate change minister urges nations to act faster on emissions reduction

Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen has used a COP31 Opening Plenary Speech to call on nations to take faster action on climate change.

Bowen is president of negotiations at this year's climate summit. It was a role he was given after Australia ceded hosting rights to Türkiye.

In the speech, Bowen said nations must move faster and scale up the use of technology to limit climate change.

He's called for more progress on electrification.

"Whether it be glacial collapse in Nepal, heat deaths in Europe, or an intensifying El Niño, climate change is here," Bowen said.

"Every fraction of a degree, and every delay, increases the risks to lives, communities, economic growth and the environment.

"We must move faster. We have the tools. The technologies we need are proven, commercial and scalable. What we need is to speed up deployment."

Hello and welcome to our federal politics live blog! It's great to have you join us here early this Tuesday morning.

I'm Josh Boscaini joining you live from Parliament House in Canberra, here and ready to bring you all of today's federal politics news.

The prime minister is about to embark on a trip to COP31 in Türkiye, the ASEAN summit in Manila, Philippines and APEC in Shenzhen, China.

Let's get right into the day and see what we get!