International negotiations on the climate crisis at COP29 opened with soundbites about how “history will judge us by our actions, not our words” but that we need to “understand political and financial constraints”
The positive spin and false solutions from politicians at the launch of COP29 in Azerbaijan on Monday has been branded “disrespectful” when what’s going on in the real world and climate negotiations is so removed from what they were saying.
But COP29 president and former oil exec, Mukhtar Babayev, said while “needs are in the trillions... the realistic goal for what the public sector can provide - hundreds of billions”. Ross Fitzpatrick from Christian Aid Ireland said: “You often find that climate finance is about providing money to developing countries but it’s also crucial to developed countries as well because we are shooting ourselves in the foot if we are not providing this number.”
Jax Bongon from IBON International said: “It is really frustrating to see and hear that global leaders are coming here today to talk about more ways they can drown people back home and across the global south. Just last night, we received information about article 6.4 to move forward documents on methodology requirements involving removal of article 6.4 without formal negotiations - we are outraged.
“Big oil-producing countries like the UAE and Azerbaijan are really not interested in phasing out fossil fuels immediately or at any time in the near future because their economies are based on it, they thrive on it. So they are looking for false solutions - carbon capture and storage, carbon offsets, all these kinds of wildly problematic but unproven technologies that don’t actually deliver essential reductions that are needed.
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