Halfway through the negotiations there is plenty of frustration. But, according to our environment editor Fiona Harvey, there is also still hope
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We are now embarking on the second week of talks in Azerbaijan, and critics have been calling Cop29 “stuck”, “logjammed”, “on a knife edge”, and “foundering”. One respected commentator, Mohamed Adow, director of the Power Shift Africa thinktank, said: “This has been the worst first week of a Cop in my 15 years attending these summits. There’s been limited progress … I sense frustration, especially among the developing country groups here at Cop. The presidency isn’t giving any hope for how the world will strike the right compromises.”
This kind of weariness is understandable, especially from people stuck in windowless rooms for 18 hours a day. And the frustration of developing countries is real – climate finance, the subject of this Cop, is a matter of life and death for them, and rich countries are certainly dragging their heels on coming up with the sums needed.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/environment/live/2024/nov/18/cop29-live-as-we-head-in-to-the-second-week-is-the-climate-summit-stuck
Author : Bibi van der Zee
Publish date : 2024-11-18 06:20:25
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