UN 'using climate for new world order'

The chairman of the prime minister's business advisory council claims the United Nations is using global warming to move against capitalism and freedom.

Tony Abbott's chief business adviser has accused the United Nations of using climate change to impose a "new world order" under its control.

Maurice Newman, a climate change sceptic and chairman of the prime minister's business advisory council, believes the UN is using global warming as a tool to create an "authoritarian world" with concentrated political authority.

"(The UN) is opposed to capitalism and freedom and has made environmental catastrophism a household topic to achieve its objective," he wrote in an opinion piece in The Australian on Friday.