SATIRICAL billboards mocking Australia's climate change record will appear in Glasgow during COP26.

The billboard campaign was crowdfunded by Australian investigative humourist Dan Ilic to expose his country's approach towards the issue during the UN climate change summit which runs from October 31 to November 12.

The signs will appear on digital out of home operator Ocean Outdoor’s Expressway Tower. Below are mockups of the artwork as it will appear on the screen on the A814 facing traffic entering Glasgow. 

Ilic's campaign, A Rational Fear, features the messages "Cuddle a Koala Before We Make Them Extinct!" and "Australia: Net Zero Ambitions by 2050!", accompanied by a kangaroo with its tail on fire.

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Ilic raised more than 40,000 Australian dollars (£21,000) from public donors in just two hours to pay for the ads. He says the surplus funds will be used to buy other billboards in key political constituencies in Australia.

He said: "Thousands of Australians have chipped in to say that the Australian Government doesn't represent them on the world stage. The Australian Prime Minister's COP26 climate plan is much worse than that time the English sent the ANZACs to the wrong beach.

"I think there are loads of Australians who believe our government isn't doing enough for climate action and has let us down over the past 15 years."

As part of the agreement negotiated in Paris in 2015, signatories must publish NDCs – plans which set out the action they plan to take to contribute to the goal of limiting global warming to well below two degrees, with “further efforts” to limit it to no more than 1.5 degrees.

Australia is a signatory to the Paris Agreement but the country's prime minister Scott Morrison has come under fire for submitting less ambitious targets than some other major nations.