Business and political leaders around the world, most notably in the powerhouses of the United States and China, are pressing for action to avert the potentially huge financial repercussions of climate change. But this year there's a major stumbling block to concerted global action. The most vocal climate change sceptic in the Group of 20 leading industrialized nations is its current host, Australia. Prime Minister Tony Abbott has tempered his public rhetoric since 2009 when he said the science behind climate change was "crap". But he has left the issue off the agenda for the G20 Leaders' Summit in Brisbane on Nov. 15-16. Abbott has dismayed environmentalists, renewable energy companies and countries with a string of decisions since his conservative government came to power last year, including scrapping a carbon tax introduced by the previous Labor government.

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