UN Climate Change Conference agenda, latest news

Rappler is covering the United Nations Climate Change Conference or COP29 happening in Baku, Azerbaijan, from November 11 to 22, 2024.

Azerbaijan is set to oversee the annual negotiations among nearly 200 countries, with climate finance, fossil fuel transition, and money for loss and damage among the top agenda items.

Earlier in April, COP29 host Azerbaijan said that “as a country rich with fossil fuels,” it would defend the right of oil- and gas-producing nations to invest in the sector.

The conference comes as the United States, among the world’s top greenhouse gas emitters, reelected former president Donald Trump, a known climate denier who vowed to remove the country from the Paris Agreement a second time.

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Climate activists in London project messages ahead of COP29

‘COP29 CAN’T FAIL’ ❌

Climate activists project messages onto the embassy of Azerbaijan and the Tower Bridge in London on Thursday, November 7, ahead of #COP29 climate talks.

Azerbaijan is set to oversee the annual negotiations among nearly 200 countries, with climate finance,… pic.twitter.com/UdadNQKCHH

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16 mins ago

PH delegation head ‘cautiously optimistic’ of climate talks

“I am at best cautiously optimistic,” Philippine Environment Secretary Toni Yulo-Loyzaga said in a statement on Friday, November 8, after she was asked about her expectations for COP29.

Loyzaga said the delegation is heading into COP29 “inextricably linking” the 2015 Paris agreement to other global treaties on development goals, biodiversity, disaster risk reduction, and plastic pollution.

Front and center of the negotiations is climate finance. The environment secretary noted the need for “new, additional, and appropriate” financing mechanisms to help developing countries deal with the impacts of climate change.

2 hours ago

Ahead of COP29, PH civil society wants $5-trillion climate fund for poor countries

Before leaders and advocates flock to Azerbaijan for global climate negotiations (COP29), Philippine civil society groups have pegged poor countries’ collective climate funding needs at $5 trillion every five years.

If agreed by parties during COP29, the fund will help “respond to the needs of developing countries, such as the Philippines, for implementing their respective adaptation and mitigation strategies and avert or minimize loss and damage,” said the position paper of a network of civil society organizations submitted to the Philippine delegation last October 30.