Leaders heading to the annual UN climate talks have a lot of other distractions to contend with
COP29 is the world's most important meeting on climate change. It is led by the UN, and this year's event, the 29th such gathering, will run from 11-22 November. It is being held in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, a central Asian country located between Russia and Iran.COP stands for “Conference of the Parties”, and in this case, the parties are the countries that have ratified a treaty called the UNFCCC .
There’s also an underlying feeling that Azerbaijan doesn’t have the diplomatic or financial clout to secure a significant agreement in Baku.Under the Paris agreement signed in 2015, world leaders pledged to try to prevent global temperatures rising by more than 1.5C. For that to happen countries need to ramp up their efforts to cut warming gases.
Up to now countries like China and the Gulf States have been classified as developing economies and been exempt from contributing. And are the fossil fuel agreements passed at the last climate talks still standing? There were signs in the G20 talks this year that some countries wanted to roll back on promises to move away from burning oil, coal and gas.
With Trump's election the US will likely withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement and from providing finance.
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