UN climate negotiations were a major bummer

Activists protestation against fossil fuels and for clime concern connected time 11 astatine the UNFCCC COP29 clime league connected November 22nd, 2024, successful Baku, Azerbaijan.  | Photo by Sean Gallup / Getty Images

Maybe it was the big of the UN clime acme successful Azerbaijan this period calling lipid and state a “gift of God.” Or the US, the world’s biggest lipid and state producer, reelecting a president who says “we don’t person a planetary warming problem” conscionable earlier the conference. Then again, the biggest result — oregon disappointment, depending connected however you look astatine it — was an incremental summation successful the magnitude of clime assistance wealthier nations committed to little affluent countries dealing with the consequences of different people’s pollution.

Any mode you look astatine it, the acme (called the Conference of the Parties, oregon COP) that fizzed retired implicit the play was exasperating, peculiarly for delegates from parts...

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