Most commentators agree that COP29 was yet another failure. Not only have the rich countries failed to adequately help the global south, who have suffered far more as a result of the already changing climate, but no progress has been made on limiting future emissions. Here are some BlueSky posts from the point of view of Environmentalists, Economists, the Global South, Journalists and those campaigning for Loss and Damage adjustment.
How much more evidence do we need, after 29 failures, that the climate COPs are not fit for purpose? Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. There have been many proposals for a process that would actually work, but all are ignored. The talks are MEANT to fail.
#COP29 has failed to deliver.❌Trust is broken as leaders leave glaring gaps in finance and ambition—putting people, planet, and the world’s poorest at risk.We’ll keep fighting.The climate and nature crisis can’t wait another year.
“What will I tell my children when I get back home? You left us for two weeks, for what? For nothing! Not even peanuts!" Tetet Lauron at #COP29 on the text for the #NCQG on #ClimateFinance failing to deliver US$ 1.3 trillion a year whilst the #ClimateCrisis claims lives and livelihoods.
An important thread if you want to understand the details.
1/20. 😭At #COP29 a decision on a completely inadequate 🚫⚖️ New Collective Quantified Goal on #ClimateFinance (#NCQG) of only US$300 billion a year has been adopted under extremely contentious circumstances with India 🇮🇳, Bolivia 🇧🇴 and Nigeria 🇳🇬 saying that they object to its adoption. 🤯
"We're awfully sorry that sea level rise is about to wipe out your entire culture. But we've come up with a new way to colour code all the multilateral development banks' spreadsheets. Will that do?"
In my Forbes piece on the COP29 climate finance agreement, I pointed out that the $300bn figure could be made up from all sorts of sleights of hand, from private loans to blended finance. In other words, it's exactly what the least-developed and vulnerable countries did not want.
Sensible economists realise it will be far better to help the poorer nations now to help them address the problems that the developed world created.
The world has to smell the climate change coffee http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/11… Climate change is real, and progressing very fast. Despite that COP29 offered less than 0.3% of world GDP to emerging economies to help them address the problems that the developed world created.
And if that wasn’t bad enough, Storm Bert has reminded us that our own country is ill-prepared for coping with the extreme weather that is coming our way. Here’s what happened in Tenbury Wells.
This is not Valencia, this is the town Tenbury Wells UK. There are very real consequences for all of us of ignoring 40 years of warnings from NASA & the world’s leading scientists. Reminder: as the planet heats, the atmosphere holds more moisture meaning rainfall intensity increases. #climatechange
As the UK suffers under water again, a reminder that successive governments have chosen not to prepare us for what's now happeningThey've ignored adaptation as badly as they've ignored mitigationWe have to stop looking away
#Floods are destroying cities.Lives are being uprooted.Communities are left in ruins.This isn’t a freak event—it’s the #ClimateEmergency.While leaders delay, nature retaliates.How much more destruction will it take?Act now. #RebelForLife
