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Montevideo, December 23rd 2024 - 18:38 UTC

Tag: COP29, Baku

  • Tuesday, November 19th 2024 - 08:46 UTC

    Global warming and the burning issue of money

    Baku had the money to host around 50,000 government officials, think-tank policy wonks, investors and campaigners (plus a few climate scientists) for two weeks

    By Gwynne Dyer - It's hard to imagine a less plausible venue for the annual UN-sponsored conference on climate than the dictatorial petro-state of Azerbaijan. Baku, the capital, has a walled medieval center that's worth a day or two, but offshore the shallow Caspian Sea is littered with a century's worth of old and new oil wells.

  • Thursday, November 14th 2024 - 18:23 UTC

    Brazilian Climate Change Minister says Milei's decision goes against the world's efforts

    Those pulling out of the Paris Agreement will not go unpunished, Silva warned

    Brazil's Environment and Climate Change Minister Marina Silva said Thursday that Argentina pulling its delegation from the Conference of Parties 29 (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan, was “a process that goes against the demands that the world is making.” In her view, however, President Javier Milei's decision will not interfere with the ongoing negotiations to have the most advanced countries further finance the adaptation of the less developed ones to the environmental agreements, Agencia Brasil reported.