COP29 Announces Key Goals for Climate Finance and Energy Storage Expansion
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With less than two months remaining before the COP29 United Nations Climate Summit, Azerbaijani leaders have unveiled their objectives for the upcoming event. A key focus of the November summit will be reaching an agreement on a new annual financing target.??
This target aims to ensure wealthier countries increase their financial support to assist poorer nations in tackling climate change.?
According to Reuters, many developing countries argue that they cannot enhance their emission reduction targets without additional financial aid to support necessary investments.?
As discussions on the financing target progress slowly, the COP29 presidency has introduced over a dozen side initiatives this week.??
These initiatives are designed to elevate climate ambitions without requiring formal negotiations or consensus-building. The proposals include new funds, pledges, and declarations that national governments can adopt independently.?
Among the proposals is a fund supported by voluntary fossil fuel producers and companies contributions.??
This fund would support both public and private sector climate initiatives. Additionally, grants are proposed to aid in mitigating climate-related natural disasters in developing countries.?
Paul Polman, a former chief of Unilever and now a climate activist and peace campaigner, said: “The idea of a ‘Cop truce’ is a deeply cynical PR stunt by Azerbaijan designed to distract the world’s attention away from its ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh last year. “If President [Ilhan] Aliyev [of Azerbaijan] truly wants to lead by example, instead on calling on others to act, he should commit to decarbonising Azerbaijan’s fossil fuel economy and release the more than 300 political prisoners he is detaining before Cop29 begins.” https://amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/17/azerbaijan-accused-of-hypocrisy-after-calling-for-cop29-global-truce