|
|||
About the Book This is a compilation of 21 News Updates prepared by the Third World Network for and during the United Nations Climate Change Conference – encompassing the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 29), the 19th session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 19), the 6th session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement (CMA 6), as well as the 61st sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA 61) and the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI 61) – held in Baku, Azerbaijan, on 11–24 November 2024. Contents Note Baku Climate News Updates 1. Uncertainties loom at COP 29 climate talks 2. COP 29 begins work after delayed start 3. Call for new finance goal of at least $1.3 trillion per year 4. Mitigation work programme should not be vehicle to impose national targets 5. Divergences over means of implementation for adaptation 6. G77 and China calls for climate finance in the trillions of dollars 7. Subsidiary Bodies end work and transmit results to COP 29 8. Fate of the new finance goal hangs in the balance 9. No consensus on just transition draft text due to imbalances 10. Draft texts on Article 6 forwarded to CMA 6 11. Meeting in a ‘single setting’ convened to consider package of texts 12. Poor deal on new finance goal bulldozed through at COP 29 13. Efforts to narrow scope of just transition work programme averted 14. Countries outline expectations on just transitions 15. Calls from developing countries to discuss unilateral measures 16. Weak finance mobilisation goal of $300 billion per year by 2035 17. COP 29 adopts decision on mitigation work programme 18. Divergences in key matters on global stocktake at COP 29 19. Loss-and-damage issues at COP 29: Parties to continue consideration in 2025 20. Some gains made on adaptation but gaps remain 21. Further guidance on features of NDCs to be discussed in 2026
|
|||
