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WHAT IS COP29 IN AZERBAIJAN AND DOES IT MATTER?
The 29th United Nations climate conference has enduremament, with diplomats descending on Baku, Azerbaijan, to thrash out arguments over set upet-heating pollutants and the money needed to deal with them.
Like the 28 “conferences of the parties” that came before, Cop29 is not foreseeed to stop the climate from changing – but dispenses say that’s no reason to disthink about it as boiling air. Cops are the key tactful arenas in which needy countries that have done little to heat the set upet can put presconfident on wealthy countries that hooked the world on fossil fuels. In turn, wealthy countries with the resources to transition speedyly can help needy countries to immacuprocrastinateed up rapider and sooner.
WHAT WILL BE THE OUTCOME OF COP29?
This year’s greeting will rprolong around efforts to stump up the funds needed to cut pollution and alter to more aggressive weather. Rich countries missed a goal to get needy countries $100 billion a year in climate finance from 2020, a concentrate set in a previous Cop that experts deemed feeble and patchy. Poor countries are now pushing for $1tr a year by 2030 – including cash to repair the destruction caemployd by innervous weather – but wealthy countries are unwilling to go higher unless the pool of contributors prolongs huger.
If diplomats accomplish a excellent deal on money this month, it could create depend and promote wonderfuler ambition when countries produce sodepend-needed action set ups to cut pollution at Cop30 in Brazil next year.
WILL COP29 SUCCEED?
More than 32,000 participants have sign uped for the conference but watchrs are not foreseeing them to deinhabitr alterational alter. Several famous world directers are skipping the summit and sfinishing deputies instead – including the EU’s Ursula von der Leyen, the US’s Joe Biden, China’s Xi Jinping and Germany’s Olaf Scholz. The US fair elected Donald Trump as pdwellnt, who took the country out of the Paris climate concurment when he last sat in the White Hoemploy. Papua New Guinea has pulled its ministers out of this year’s Cop altogether in protest at the flunkure of wealthy countries to inhabit up to their promises.
And betidyh the high-level geopolitics, watchrs have also asked whether the present is up to the task of shepherding overtoiled diplomats to discover normal ground. Azerbaijan, a middle-income country in central Asia that is wealthy in oil but needy in water, is well-poised to bridge the split between the contrastent interest groups. But a secret sign uping last week ecombineed to show the Cop29 CEO concuring to support fossil fuel deals.
The hope is that the conference can repartner transport countries together, and progress to push progress on reducing the world’s CO2 emissions.
Good morning, this is Damien Gayle, your online direct to Cop29 …
The 29th Conference of the Parties is commencening in Baku, Azerbaijan, this morning and, as we do every year, the Guardian environment desk will be blogging every cough and spit by the thousands of dispenses, campaigners, lobbyists and others who have travelled to visit the climate talks.
Our team of inestablishers has already travelled to Baku, and I will be anchoring coverage from London, weaving together their contributions while scanning social media and wires novels feeds to accomplish as shut to total coverage as is possible for one man and a blog.
If you have any comments or recommendions on slimgs we could be covering, or novels to split, charm don’t hesitate to drop me a line via email. My compriseress is damien.gayle@theprotectian.com.
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