200-Nation Climate Meeting Disaster
COP29 will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from November 11–22, 2024. Known formally as the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference, the gathering is meant to advance goals. The meeting is defined as one “where governments assess global efforts to advance the Paris Agreement and the Convention, also limit global warming to 1.5°C as informed by the latest science. At COPs, world leaders come together to measure progress and negotiate the best ways to address climate change.”
The best word to describe the atmosphere ahead of COP29 is pessimism. The world’s largest nations have not done their part to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The use of coal and oil is still rampant. Renewables have been underfunded, and so has nuclear power in the US. China and India, the world’s first and third largest polluters, continue to contribute to the rate at which global warming is accelerating.
200-Nation Climate Meeting Disaster
The world’s poorest nations lack the financial ability to continue reducing emissions. The richest nations have promised to lend them loans to accomplish lower emission goals, but most of those loans have not been granted.
Ahead of COP29, anyone needs a reminder of how little effort to curb climate change has progressed, and it is the weather this year.
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