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Australia on Friday avoided having the Great Barrier Reef listed as an endangered world heritage site by UNESCO, despite extensive climate change-fuelled damage to the ecosystem's corals. After a concerted lobbying effort by Canberra, members of the World Heritage Committee—including leading fossil fuel producers Russia and Saudi Arabia—voted to give Australian conservation efforts more time.

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