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After Cop29 The World Is Losing Faith In The Un Climate Process

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after cop29 the world is losing faith in the un climate process

We encourage you to republish Dialogue Earth articles, online or in print, under the Creative Commons license. Please read our republishing guidelines to get started. The Blue Zone at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, 2024. Delegations representing parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will meet again this November at COP30 in Brazil, amid mistrust over the current progress towards finance targets (Image: Ministério do Meio... When Azerbaijan hosted the United Nations’ climate summit, COP29, last year, hopes were high that it could deliver a breakthrough on climate finance, one of the most contentious issues in the global climate process. The result was a commitment by developed countries to “take the lead” in mobilising USD 300 billion annually by 2035, part of a wider goal to unlock USD 1.3 trillion from all public and...

This was hailed by some as a step forward from the previous pledge of USD 100 billion by 2020, but questioned by others as insufficient in the face of a mounting climate crisis. This year, COP30 will be hosted in Brazil, with an agenda focused on implementing last year’s finance pledge and raising the bar on climate action. Countries are also due to arrive in the host city of Belém with their updated plans for climate action, known as nationally determined contributions. This is happening amid geopolitical tensions that are diverting countries’ attention, and a feeling of distrust by some climate experts and civil society over the progress of the climate negotiations. This year’s UN climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan kicked off with a fulsome celebration of fossil fuels, praised by the country’s president Ilham Aliyev as a “gift of God.” It ended with a climate... The question at COP29 was how much wealthy countries, most responsible for the climate crisis, owe poor countries facing the worst impacts.

The answer: $300 billion a year by 2035. Rich countries said it was the best they could do. Poorer countries called it “abysmal,” falling far below the $1.3 trillion economists say they need to cope with a crisis they have not caused. In the wake of a chaotic, bitter summit and heavily criticized final deal, some experts are asking whether the whole COP process is now so lacking in ambition as to be almost worthless. Amid geopolitical upheaval, including the election of a climate denier in the US, Baku might be remembered as the beginning of the end of multilateral climate action. “The dismal outcomes of COP29 … have raised serious concerns about the integrity of the global climate negotiation process,” said Harjeet Singh, of the Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative.

The United Nations’ 29th annual summit on tackling climate change has just begun in Azerbaijan’s capital of Baku – but have we lost faith in it? The meeting, known as COP29, is intended to facilitate urgent, global cooperation on climate change, and governments are meant work together to keep environmental warming to 1.5C on pre-industrial levels. This year, negotiators from nearly 200 countries are looking to hash out a climate finance deal in an effort to fund poorer countries who are still struggling to go green. But, almost three decades since the climate summit began, scientists are still sounding alarm and pleading for more action from governments while previous agreements hang in the balance. According to the latest YouGov poll, just 9% of Brits are feeling optimistic, saying it’s either very likely (1%) or fairly likely (8%) that COP will result in significant action to tackle climate change. Sign up to our weekly and monthly, easy-to-digest recap of climate news from around the world.

Sunday marked the end of the year’s most important climate summit, the 29th UN Conference of the Parties (COP29). Hosted by a petrostate and attended by nearly 2,000 fossil fuel lobbyists, the “finance COP” promised to deliver much-needed progress on the critical issue of supporting developing countries’ mitigation and adaptation efforts. But the COP29 Presidency faced other challenges, and not all of them have been addressed. So, did COP29 succeed or fail? And, most importantly, is COP still “fit for purpose”? More than 50,000 people attended the two-week summit in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku, including 80 world leaders and at least 1,773 fossil fuel lobbyists.

The 29th edition of the United Nations Conference of the Parties was nicknamed the “finance COP,” sharp in focus on mobilizing the trillions of dollars needed – first and foremost by developing countries –... But there is a lot more to unpack. Earth.Org recaps the main achievements and failures of COP29 and looks at what is next for the UN summit. Recent deadly floods in Valencia, Spain, were made worse by climate change, scientists say The United Nations' COP climate talks are "no longer fit for purpose" and need an urgent overhaul, key experts including a former UN secretary general and former UN climate chief have said. In a letter to the UN, external, senior figures say countries should not host the talks if they don’t support the phase out of fossil energy.

This week the Azerbaijani president told world leaders gathered in his country for COP29 that natural gas was a “gift from God” and he shouldn’t be blamed for bringing it to market. That came days after the BBC reported that a senior Azerbaijani official appeared to have used his role at COP to arrange a meeting to discuss potential fossil fuel deals. Cop29, the 29th annual climate conference in Azerbaijan, came to an end on Sunday, and in its wake have come doubts about the UN process for negotiating a solution to global heating. “All this means we are still looking at a future with global warming above 3˚C,” say climate scientist Mark Maslin, infrastructure engineer Priti Parikh and international development expert Simon Chin-Yee at UCL. Read more: Cop29: five critical issues still left hanging after an underwhelming UN climate summit in Azerbaijan This roundup of The Conversation’s climate coverage comes from our award-winning weekly climate action newsletter.

Every Wednesday, The Conversation’s environment editor writes Imagine, a short email that goes a little deeper into just one climate issue. Join the 40,000+ readers who’ve subscribed. Cop29 ended with a target to triple the flow of money to the poorest and most climate-vulnerable countries by 2035. As the dust settles after COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, IIED’s executive director Tom Mitchell reflects on a ‘squandered opportunity’ to address the climate emergency and calls for reform of the COP process, to ensure... The 29th United Nations climate change conference was held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 11 to 22 November 2024 (Photo: IRENA, via Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) COP29 in Baku will be remembered as a squandered opportunity to turn promises of climate action into reality.

Despite being framed as the 'Finance COP', the outcomes reveal a deepening chasm between rhetoric and action. The failure of wealthier nations to provide meaningful adaptation finance or pathways to resilience for the most climate-vulnerable countries is devastating, especially when action on emissions has fallen short and the price tag of... While COP continues to be a critical platform where least developed countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have an equal seat at the table, the decisions made at this year’s summit fall... This article was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The closing plenary of the U.N. climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, November 23, 2024.

Vugar Ibadov / U.N. Climate Change Rich nations pledged $300 billion a year in aid, but developing countries that need help building out renewable energy and adapting to climate impacts say they again felt bullied to accept an inadequate agreement. After spending two weeks making vague statements about challenging geopolitics, but no explanation of why they spend trillions of dollars per year on fossil fuel subsidies, developed countries at COP29 finally said they would... The money will help developing countries build renewable energy capacity and adapt to increasingly severe climate impacts on an overheating planet. But it’s far from what they asked for, and far from what’s needed.

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