UN talks open in Baku with stark warning no country is immune from climate disaster
John Podesta, senior adviser to the US president for clean energy innovation, speaks to journalists following a news conference at the Cop29 climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan. Photograph: Hollie Adams/Bloombergoutcome was “bitterly disappointing” in terms of its implications for climate change. While climate change is a matter of life and death “it’s clear the next administration will try to make a U-turn and reverse progress”.
Cop29 is the only global process to address the rampant climate crisis and “without it humanity would be headed towards 5 degrees of warming”, Simon Stiell, head of UN Climate Change, told the opening session. Delivering climate finance from rich countries to developing countries – the main agenda item – was a matter of global security, he said, dismissing any notion it should be viewed as charity, as it “aligns with the self-interest of all nations”.
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