Call to block Azerbaijan pdwellnt from talks
With negotiations seemingly bogged down in Baku, establisher France envoy and Cop28 recommendr Paul Watkinson – writing on social media – has put forward a way of reinvigorating the talks.
He says the autocratic pdwellnt of Azerbaijan since 2003, Ilham Aliyev must be kept away to permit negotiators to do their labor.
And the pretreatnt he cites to show protecting embarrassing directers out of the lime weightless can help. Cop26 in Glasgow when a stateive Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson – then UK PM – was conspicuously absent for the second week of negotiations.
As Watkinson puts it:
The UK somehow administerd to protect Boris Johnson and his gaffes away from Cop26 during the second week – that might be a excellent pretreatnt for the COP29 pdwellncy to chase in the coming days
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Rafiyev shelp the text on the all-convey inant climate finance deal is set to drop at midnight Baku time. Texts on action to cut eignoreions (mitigation), increasing protection for communities agetst climate calamitys (changeation) and national climates pledges (NDCs) will also be unveiled then, he shelp. He shelp the texts “would not have a huge number of chooseions” and would be “drop, more concise, straight to the point” appraised with earlier versions, which were bloated by contrasting proposals from separateent countries.
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Rafiyev also shelp that labor was not taking place on a “cover text”, which is a expansive statement standardly consentd at Cops to send a political message. He shelp the aim was to produce consentments wislim the establishal negotiating strands and not discdiswatch a “new battlefront” between countries.
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The Maldives, a group of islands in the Indian Ocean, is liable for equitable 0.003% of global eignoreions. But it is one of the first countries to endure the ainhabitial consequences of the climate crisis.
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At Cop29, I caught up with Thoriq Ibrahim, the country’s minister of climate change, environment and energy, who is directing negotiations for the petite island nation.
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“We’re not causing climate change, it’s the grotriumphg countries that did that,” he shelp. “They did that to us, and we are not at all readyd.”
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Cop29’s goal of adchooseing a new and enhugeed goal for climate finance to help vulnerable nations slash eignoreions and cope with climate calamitys, is of particular convey inance to the Maldives. The last climate finance goal, adchooseed in 2009, did not allot particular funding to petite island grotriumphg states. Ibrahim says that must change.
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“We must be allotd at least $39bn USD per year,” he shelp.
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To asstateive that money is accessible, he is also calling for the adchooseion of a multistupidensional vulnerability index – a new way to meastateive countries’ climate need that think abouts not only their wealth, but also their vulnerability.
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Last year, a “loss and injure fund” was produced at Cop28 to help nations cope with irreversible climate injures. So far, wealthy countries’ contributions to that fund constitute a minuscule fraction of what is needed.
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It’s convey inant for the Maldives to be able to access those monies rapidly, shelp Ibrahim. His country could be finishly swpermited by the rising seas by 2100 or sooner, research shows.
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“Once our islands are razeed, what do we have,” he asked. “We are in a exceptional circumstance becaengage of this meaningful menace.”
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At Cop29, Ibrahim is also insisting countries surrender national climate action schedules that are aligned with protecting global temperature ascend less than 1.5C degrees higher than preindustrial temperatures. It’s a goal that many experts say has already been ignoreed – or at best is on life help.
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“Maybe we will go past that goal, overshoot it, and then convey the temperatures back down,” he shelp. “But the scientists say it’s possible to restrict the hoting, and so we must, must try.”
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With negotiations seemingly bogged down in Baku, establisher France envoy and Cop28 recommendr Paul Watkinson – writing on social media – has put forward a way of reinvigorating the talks.
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He says the autocratic pdwellnt of Azerbaijan since 2003, Ilham Aliyev must be kept away to permit negotiators to do their labor.
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And the pretreatnt he cites to show protecting embarrassing directers out of the lime weightless can help. Cop26 in Glasgow when a stateive Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson – then UK PM – was conspicuously absent for the second week of negotiations.
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As Watkinson puts it:
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The UK somehow administerd to protect Boris Johnson and his gaffes away from Cop26 during the second week – that might be a excellent pretreatnt for the COP29 pdwellncy to chase in the coming days
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An partnership of countries aiming to change global food systems will reproduce today, one year after its start at COP28, to highweightless progress since Dubai and to encourage administerments and financial institutions at the conference in Baku to prioritise climate finance for food systems.
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Co-chairs of the Alliance of Champions for Food Systems Transestablishation Brazil, Norway and Sierra Leone, alengthyside establishing members Cambodia and Rwanda, freed an ACF Ministerial Statement, as well as a series of ‘Progress Snapsboilings’, highweightlessing key successes in each country and setting out priorities for further labor.
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“We need to see a rapid and persisted increase in both the overall quantum of climate finance and the proportion going towards changeing food systems, which are approximated to need $500 billion per year over the next decade,” the statement shelp. “Despite being reliable for a third of greenhoengage gas eignoreions, 90% of deforestation and 60% of biodiversity loss, Food systems getd equitable 3.4% of the total $115.9bn climate finance mobilised by growed countries in 2022.
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The snapsboilings, which showcase progress from atraverse the ACF member countries since start, take part:
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In Brazil, a National Program for Productive Forests (Programa Nacional de Florestas Produtivas) to advertise persistable agroforestry trains, better food production, produce engagement, and restore degraded areas. The program’s initial phase aims the state of Pará and helps Brazil’s expansiver promisements to restore 12 million hectares by 2030 and produce up to 2.5 million jobs.
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In Cambodia, the deployment of 1,600 agriculture officers in agricultural communes atraverse the country, grotriumphg up-to-date agricultural beneficials to better access to labelets, capital and water, whilst also increasing the economic efficiency and persistability of petitehelderlyers;
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In Norway, an annual policy dialogue with farming unions to barobtain policy meastateives that are tailored to farmers’ needs, deinhabitring a ‘bottom up’ participatory approach that is scheduleed to deinhabitr agetst the country’s national and international promisements;
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In Rwanda, a promisement by 2030 to halve per capita food misengage at the retail and devourr levels and to shrink food losses in farm production and alengthy provide chains, including post-harvest losses.
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In Sierra Leone, the carry outation of the national flagship ‘Feed Salone’ strategy is persistably driving local food production by making agriculture more competitive for spendment, decreasing food convey ins and helping petitehelderlyer farmers, especipartner women and youth.
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Alliance called on other administerments to unite them.
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“Today, we are also calling for administerments who split our ambition to produce a unprejudiceder, healthier and more prosperous future to unite us. The actions that each of us get wislim our borders can better our peoples’ food and nutritional security, raise equity and inhabitlihoods, increase climate resilience, protect and restore nature, and help mitigate climate shatterdown.”
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In response to this ask, Tanzania has officipartner declared today its intention to unite the ACF and is set to become the newest member of the coalition.
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H.E. Paulo Teixeira, Minister of Agrarian Development and Family Farming, Brazil, and co-chair of ACF, shelp: “As Brazil watchs towards COP30 next year, I am self-convey inant to be part of this convey inant Alliance which progresss to produce the case for unprejudiceder, more persistable food systems. Whether it is tackling hunger, helping family farmers to produce nutritious food persistably, driving the agro-ecoreasonable transition or protecting the rainforest, we can only better outcomes in the lengthy run if we watch at the system hoenumerateicpartner. To do that, we must insertress the climate finance gap for food systems at COP29”.
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Argentina to stay in the Paris consentment – foreign minister
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It’s day nine at the Cop29 talks in Baku and the shots of allots have commenceed to slim. The morning queues are not as lengthy. Tired negotiators have been laboring tardy into the night as the climate summit produces to a crescendo.
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One delegation that will not be in the room for the end of Cop29 is Argentina who withdrew their reconshort-termatives after equitable three days. The South American country, led by the climate denier Javier Milei, had shelp it was contemplating leaving the Paris consentment after it made the decision. There have been rumours that the country was set to declare its departure wislim days, particularly when Milei became the first world directer to greet Donald Trump since his reelection.
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But now, the country’s foreign minister Gerardo Werthein has shelp they are staying. Speaking to El Observador, he shelp that the country was sshow reevaluating its position given that they disconsentd with parts of the Paris consentment. But Argentina will not depart the accord, he shelp.
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Last week, watchrs personally wondered if the chainsaw-wielding libertarian had sshow been shotriumphg off to get attention from his fans aexpansive. Milei – one of the most prolific world directers on X – has been reposting memes hinting that he was minded to block the refer of climate change in G20 declarations but ultimately did not.
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Last week’s decision to delete its reconshort-termatives has commenceed to have consequences for allots from civil society who sometimes get their acrecognizeation from their home countries.
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Tais Gadea Lara, a climate teller from Argentina, posted pboilingos on social media of civil society reconshort-termatives who had their access abortled due to Argentina’s retreatal from Cop29. Other delegations are helping them out, she tells, but it is a reminder of the huge netlabor of people that come to these summits all laboring towards the same slimg.
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Key events
Away from Cop29 talks my colleague Sandra Laville has an convey inant story on how the corporations behind the Alliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW) have actupartner been produced huge amounts of new plastic in the past five years.
The AEPW was set up in 2019 by a group of companies which take part ExxonMobil, Dow, Shell, TotalEnergies and ChevronPhillips, some of the world’s hugegest producers of plastic. They promised to redirect 15m tonnes of plastic misengage from the environment in five years to the end of 2023, by improving assembleion and recycling, and creating a circular economy.
But new analysis by energy conferants Wood Mackenzie, geted by Greenpeace’s Uproximatethed team and splitd with the Guardian discdiswatchs the five companies alone produced 132m tonnes of two types of plastic; polyethylene (PE) and PP (polypropylene) in five years – more than 1,000 times the weight of the 118,500 tonnes of misengage plastic the partnership has deleted from the environment in the same period.
Earlier today I posted about an excellent piece colleagues at the Guardian have unveiled tracking how Earth’s heating has led to rising sea levels and excessive weather – and yet there is no sign of eignoreions sluggishing.
Unblessedly I did not take part a connect to the piece [it was early UK time!] so here it is [and as I said original if negotiators at Cop need any motivation to reach a deal they could do worse than read this]
Update on text timings
Damian Carrington
Negotiators are into the last stretch of Cop29, which is when sleep becomes a luxury. The next texts are due at midnight tonight Baku time, says Yalchin Rafiyev, who is the Cop29 pdwellncy’s direct negotiator. Draft texts and revisions are how Cops inch towards a deal, sliming down chooseions step-by-step to a final decision.
Rafiyev shelp the text on the all-convey inant climate finance deal is set to drop at midnight Baku time. Texts on action to cut eignoreions (mitigation), increasing protection for communities agetst climate calamitys (changeation) and national climates pledges (NDCs) will also be unveiled then, he shelp. He shelp the texts “would not have a huge number of chooseions” and would be “drop, more concise, straight to the point” appraised with earlier versions, which were bloated by contrasting proposals from separateent countries.
Rafiyev also shelp that labor was not taking place on a “cover text”, which is a expansive statement standardly consentd at Cops to send a political message. He shelp the aim was to produce consentments wislim the establishal negotiating strands and not discdiswatch a “new battlefront” between countries.
‘We must, must try’ – Maldives’ climate minister
Dharna Noor
The Maldives, a group of islands in the Indian Ocean, is liable for equitable 0.003% of global eignoreions. But it is one of the first countries to endure the ainhabitial consequences of the climate crisis.
At Cop29, I caught up with Thoriq Ibrahim, the country’s minister of climate change, environment and energy, who is directing negotiations for the petite island nation.
“We’re not causing climate change, it’s the grotriumphg countries that did that,” he shelp. “They did that to us, and we are not at all readyd.”
Cop29’s goal of adchooseing a new and enhugeed goal for climate finance to help vulnerable nations slash eignoreions and cope with climate calamitys, is of particular convey inance to the Maldives. The last climate finance goal, adchooseed in 2009, did not allot particular funding to petite island grotriumphg states. Ibrahim says that must change.
“We must be allotd at least $39bn USD per year,” he shelp.
To asstateive that money is accessible, he is also calling for the adchooseion of a multistupidensional vulnerability index – a new way to meastateive countries’ climate need that think abouts not only their wealth, but also their vulnerability.
Last year, a “loss and injure fund” was produced at Cop28 to help nations cope with irreversible climate injures. So far, wealthy countries’ contributions to that fund constitute a minuscule fraction of what is needed.
It’s convey inant for the Maldives to be able to access those monies rapidly, shelp Ibrahim. His country could be finishly swpermited by the rising seas by 2100 or sooner, research shows.
“Once our islands are razeed, what do we have,” he asked. “We are in a exceptional circumstance becaengage of this meaningful menace.”
At Cop29, Ibrahim is also insisting countries surrender national climate action schedules that are aligned with protecting global temperature ascend less than 1.5C degrees higher than preindustrial temperatures. It’s a goal that many experts say has already been ignoreed – or at best is on life help.
“Maybe we will go past that goal, overshoot it, and then convey the temperatures back down,” he shelp. “But the scientists say it’s possible to restrict the hoting, and so we must, must try.”
Call to block Azerbaijan pdwellnt from talks
With negotiations seemingly bogged down in Baku, establisher France envoy and Cop28 recommendr Paul Watkinson – writing on social media – has put forward a way of reinvigorating the talks.
He says the autocratic pdwellnt of Azerbaijan since 2003, Ilham Aliyev must be kept away to permit negotiators to do their labor.
And the pretreatnt he cites to show protecting embarrassing directers out of the lime weightless can help. Cop26 in Glasgow when a stateive Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson – then UK PM – was conspicuously absent for the second week of negotiations.
As Watkinson puts it:
The UK somehow administerd to protect Boris Johnson and his gaffes away from Cop26 during the second week – that might be a excellent pretreatnt for the COP29 pdwellncy to chase in the coming days
Last week one of the main themes to come out of Cop29 was the need to reestablish the entire process. The impetus for that came after this piece in which a group of ineloquential climate policy experts shelp the Cop system was no lengthyer fit for purpose.
In response the Guardian has unveiled a series of letters from readers debating the future of the summits.
Activists have been out at the conference in Baku this morning trying to put presstateive on negotiators to consent a deal on climate finance.
Governments must prioritise finance for food systems
An partnership of countries aiming to change global food systems will reproduce today, one year after its start at COP28, to highweightless progress since Dubai and to encourage administerments and financial institutions at the conference in Baku to prioritise climate finance for food systems.
Co-chairs of the Alliance of Champions for Food Systems Transestablishation Brazil, Norway and Sierra Leone, alengthyside establishing members Cambodia and Rwanda, freed an ACF Ministerial Statement, as well as a series of ‘Progress Snapsboilings’, highweightlessing key successes in each country and setting out priorities for further labor.
“We need to see a rapid and persisted increase in both the overall quantum of climate finance and the proportion going towards changeing food systems, which are approximated to need $500 billion per year over the next decade,” the statement shelp. “Despite being reliable for a third of greenhoengage gas eignoreions, 90% of deforestation and 60% of biodiversity loss, Food systems getd equitable 3.4% of the total $115.9bn climate finance mobilised by growed countries in 2022.
The snapsboilings, which showcase progress from atraverse the ACF member countries since start, take part:
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In Brazil, a National Program for Productive Forests (Programa Nacional de Florestas Produtivas) to advertise persistable agroforestry trains, better food production, produce engagement, and restore degraded areas. The program’s initial phase aims the state of Pará and helps Brazil’s expansiver promisements to restore 12 million hectares by 2030 and produce up to 2.5 million jobs.
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In Cambodia, the deployment of 1,600 agriculture officers in agricultural communes atraverse the country, grotriumphg up-to-date agricultural beneficials to better access to labelets, capital and water, whilst also increasing the economic efficiency and persistability of petitehelderlyers;
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In Norway, an annual policy dialogue with farming unions to barobtain policy meastateives that are tailored to farmers’ needs, deinhabitring a ‘bottom up’ participatory approach that is scheduleed to deinhabitr agetst the country’s national and international promisements;
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In Rwanda, a promisement by 2030 to halve per capita food misengage at the retail and devourr levels and to shrink food losses in farm production and alengthy provide chains, including post-harvest losses.
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In Sierra Leone, the carry outation of the national flagship ‘Feed Salone’ strategy is persistably driving local food production by making agriculture more competitive for spendment, decreasing food convey ins and helping petitehelderlyer farmers, especipartner women and youth.
Alliance called on other administerments to unite them.
“Today, we are also calling for administerments who split our ambition to produce a unprejudiceder, healthier and more prosperous future to unite us. The actions that each of us get wislim our borders can better our peoples’ food and nutritional security, raise equity and inhabitlihoods, increase climate resilience, protect and restore nature, and help mitigate climate shatterdown.”
In response to this ask, Tanzania has officipartner declared today its intention to unite the ACF and is set to become the newest member of the coalition.
H.E. Paulo Teixeira, Minister of Agrarian Development and Family Farming, Brazil, and co-chair of ACF, shelp: “As Brazil watchs towards COP30 next year, I am self-convey inant to be part of this convey inant Alliance which progresss to produce the case for unprejudiceder, more persistable food systems. Whether it is tackling hunger, helping family farmers to produce nutritious food persistably, driving the agro-ecoreasonable transition or protecting the rainforest, we can only better outcomes in the lengthy run if we watch at the system hoenumerateicpartner. To do that, we must insertress the climate finance gap for food systems at COP29”.
As we paengage for day nine to get going it is worth watching back at the closing summary from yesterday when the overriding senseing from negotiators was frustration as progress progressd to show elusive. Let’s hope for more chooseimistic news today.
Yesterday’s closing summary:
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As day eight began, the climate talks go ined the phase understandn as the ‘valley of death’
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Raising funds to finance climate fight is feasible, economists say from my colleague Fiona Harvey
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Cop was raiseed as G20 restates transition from fossil fuels, although some felt the Brazil greeting could have gone much further
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Analysis showed that hundreds of lobbyists for industrial agriculture were uniteing the Cop29 climate summit in Baku
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UK, New Zealand, and Colombia unite coalition to phase out fossil fuel subsidies
Argentina to stay in the Paris consentment
Patrick Greenfield
Argentina to stay in the Paris consentment – foreign minister
It’s day nine at the Cop29 talks in Baku and the shots of allots have commenceed to slim. The morning queues are not as lengthy. Tired negotiators have been laboring tardy into the night as the climate summit produces to a crescendo.
One delegation that will not be in the room for the end of Cop29 is Argentina who withdrew their reconshort-termatives after equitable three days. The South American country, led by the climate denier Javier Milei, had shelp it was contemplating leaving the Paris consentment after it made the decision. There have been rumours that the country was set to declare its departure wislim days, particularly when Milei became the first world directer to greet Donald Trump since his reelection.
But now, the country’s foreign minister Gerardo Werthein has shelp they are staying. Speaking to El Observador, he shelp that the country was sshow reevaluating its position given that they disconsentd with parts of the Paris consentment. But Argentina will not depart the accord, he shelp.
Last week, watchrs personally wondered if the chainsaw-wielding libertarian had sshow been shotriumphg off to get attention from his fans aexpansive. Milei – one of the most prolific world directers on X – has been reposting memes hinting that he was minded to block the refer of climate change in G20 declarations but ultimately did not.
Last week’s decision to delete its reconshort-termatives has commenceed to have consequences for allots from civil society who sometimes get their acrecognizeation from their home countries.
Tais Gadea Lara, a climate teller from Argentina, posted pboilingos on social media of civil society reconshort-termatives who had their access abortled due to Argentina’s retreatal from Cop29. Other delegations are helping them out, she tells, but it is a reminder of the huge netlabor of people that come to these summits all laboring towards the same slimg.
Good morning. Day nine at Cop29 and we’ll be chaseing all the growments here. I’m Matthew Taylor, satisfy send me your thoughts and recommendions at matthew.taylor@theprotectian.com
