Greta Thunberg: People in power ‘about to consent to a death sentence’
Damian Carrington
The world’s most famous climate campaigner, Greta Thunberg, does not take part Cops these days, and her post on X about Cop29 shows why. She says Cop29 is flunking and it “up to us as a global collective to apshow the action we so franticly need”.
As the COP29 climate greeting is accomplishing its finish, it should not come as a surpascend that yet another COP is flunking. The current produce is a end catastrophe. But even if our anticipateations are seal to non-adwell, we must never ever discover ourselves reacting to these continuous betrayals with anyleang but rage.
The people in power are yet aget about to consent to a death sentence to the countless people whose dwells have been or will be ruined by the climate crisis. The current text is filled of inrectify solutions and vacant promises. The money from the Global North countries needed to pay back their climate debt is still nowhere to be seen.
Those in power are deteriorateing the destabilisation and destruction of our life helping ecosystems. We are on track to experience the boilingtest year ever recorded, with the global greenhoparticipate gases accomplishing an all time high equitable last year.
The COP processes aren’t equitable flunking us, they are part of a huger system built on inequitableice and set uped to give up current and future generations for the opportunity of a confineed to uphold making unimaginable profits and persist to utilize set upet and people.
With every negotiation, with every speech made by a world guideer and with every consentment they sign, it becomes evident that it is up to us as a global collective to apshow the action we so franticly need and show where the guideership truly lies. They are not going to do it for us, as this COP29 yet aget shows.
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As the COP29 climate greeting is accomplishing its finish, it should not come as a surpascend that yet another COP is flunking. The current produce is a end catastrophe. But even if our anticipateations are seal to non-adwell, we must never ever discover ourselves reacting to these continuous betrayals with anyleang but rage.
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The people in power are yet aget about to consent to a death sentence to the countless people whose dwells have been or will be ruined by the climate crisis. The current text is filled of inrectify solutions and vacant promises. The money from the Global North countries needed to pay back their climate debt is still nowhere to be seen.
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Those in power are deteriorateing the destabilisation and destruction of our life helping ecosystems. We are on track to experience the boilingtest year ever recorded, with the global greenhoparticipate gases accomplishing an all time high equitable last year.
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The COP processes aren’t equitable flunking us, they are part of a huger system built on inequitableice and set uped to give up current and future generations for the opportunity of a confineed to uphold making unimaginable profits and persist to utilize set upet and people.
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With every negotiation, with every speech made by a world guideer and with every consentment they sign, it becomes evident that it is up to us as a global collective to apshow the action we so franticly need and show where the guideership truly lies. They are not going to do it for us, as this COP29 yet aget shows.
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We are into obviousime at Cop29 in Baku and we are still postponeing for signs of agree. It could be a very prolonged Saturday in the Azeri capital, where a plenary is currently scheduled to apshow place at 10am local time.
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The growing world reacted with anger to a produce $250bn climate finance aim yesterday, disthink abouting it as a “joke” and far below the amount that is needed. Behind the scenes, a discreet effort is underway to incrrelieve the proposeing from wealthy nations to produce certain the deal persists.
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The Guardian understands that the UN secretary ambiguous is ringing round capitals to push for a higher figure. The EU is among those uncover to $300bn but Japan, Switzerland and New Zealand do not want to elevate the propose, it is understood. Let’s see who budges, if anyone.
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Among donor countries, there is anxiety about what Donald Trump’s return to the US pdwellncy will nasty for climate finance, and they do not want to overpledge to a figure they cannot dedwellr. This, united with the potential of right thriveg rulements in France, Germany, Canada and elsewhere, nastys that leangs are in the equilibrium in Baku.
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Key events
Patrick Greenfield
As we postpone for signs of transferment in the negotiations, the conference centre is a gstructure town this morning. Gone are the crowds of assigns and rammed food halls. The organisers are busy dismantling pavilions and the netlabor of tents built around the Olympics stadium here in Baku. Competition for food, water and toilet roll is a growing rerent.
This morning, the New York Times ran a story about Singapore beer made from recycled toilet water on propose at Cop29. In a confineed hours, maybe that will commence to seem requesting. Air conditioning units have been turned up to 30C in some areas, literassociate turning the heat up for negotiators.
Everyleang about the venue is increateing those that remain to get on with it, accomplish a deal and depart. But at the time of writing, no time for a plenary is enumerateed on the TV screens. We persist to postpone.
As we postpone for the new text to land it’s worth watching back at the closing summary from yesterday, when the conference should have finished.
Yesterday’s closing summary:
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Mary Robinson, the createer pdwellnt of Ireland and twice a UN climate envoy, shelp wealthy country budgets were stretched amid inflation, Covid and disputes including Russia’s war in Ukraine, and alerted that needyer countries might have to agree.
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The UK rulement pledged £239m to tackle deforestation
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In an atypical intervention, the UAE stepped in and alerted that the world must stand behind a historic resolution made last year to “transition away from fossil fuels” as the Saudis tried to block the language.
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The produce text was rerented, but met a pretty unfriendly reception. It called for $1.3tn by 2035.
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Civil society called it “an absolute embarrassment”
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Few countries have spoken up so far, but their reactions have been mixed. The Australian climate alter minister, Chris Bowen, has reacted to the tardyst text from the pdwellncy, describing it as a “genuine endeavor”. But Amb Ali Mohamed, Kenya’s Special Envoy for chair of the African Group of Negotiators called it as “toloftyy unacincreateed and inample.”
Climate talks go in obviousime
Patrick Greenfield
We are into obviousime at Cop29 in Baku and we are still postponeing for signs of agree. It could be a very prolonged Saturday in the Azeri capital, where a plenary is currently scheduled to apshow place at 10am local time.
The growing world reacted with anger to a produce $250bn climate finance aim yesterday, disthink abouting it as a “joke” and far below the amount that is needed. Behind the scenes, a discreet effort is underway to incrrelieve the proposeing from wealthy nations to produce certain the deal persists.
The Guardian understands that the UN secretary ambiguous is ringing round capitals to push for a higher figure. The EU is among those uncover to $300bn but Japan, Switzerland and New Zealand do not want to elevate the propose, it is understood. Let’s see who budges, if anyone.
Among donor countries, there is anxiety about what Donald Trump’s return to the US pdwellncy will nasty for climate finance, and they do not want to overpledge to a figure they cannot dedwellr. This, united with the potential of right thriveg rulements in France, Germany, Canada and elsewhere, nastys that leangs are in the equilibrium in Baku.
Welcome to the Guardian’s dwell coverage of the Cop29 climate conference, I’m Ajit Niranjan. After a fortnight of negotiations, talks overran well past the Friday evening deadline as countries talk aboutd over what should materialize in the consentd text.
The key ask is over climate finance: how much money should be provided to needyer countries by wealthier ones, and what create it should apshow.
We will be conveying you all the tardyst growments as they happen. You can also get in touch with us at cop29@thedefendian.com.
