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It is still not out of the question that there could be an inability to close the gap on the finance issue,
We’re still yet to hear reaction from the developed side,
If we don’t get a deal I think it will be a fatal wound to this process, to the planet, to people,
The U.S. in particular, and rich countries, need to do far more to to show that they’re willing for real money to come forward,
We came here to this COP for a fair deal. We feel that we haven't been heard, and there's a deal to be made, and we have not been consulted ... [W]e've walked out because at the moment, we don't feel that we are being heard,
We are in the midst of a geopolitical power play by a few fossil fuel states,
We have to do everything to come toward the 1.5 degree (Celsius, 2.7 Fahrenheit) pathway,
she said, referring to the Paris Agreement target of keeping global warming below that temperature limit compared with preindustrial times We're here as a group of AOSIS (Alliance of Small Island States) and LDCs (Least Developed Countries). We've just walked out,
said Cedric Schuster, the Samoan chairman of the group We want nothing more than to continue to engage, but the process must be INCLUSIVE, ... If this cannot be the case, it becomes very difficult for us to continue our involvement here at COP29."
We have presently removed ourselves from the stalled NCQG (New Collective Quantified Goal) discussions, which were not offering a progressive way forward,
We cannot leave Baku without a decision that lives up to the challenge we are facing,
she said via a translator We've spent three years negotiating these numbers. And with the end of the three years we've got nothing,
We're still working on the number with other parties."
Sierra Leone's environment minister, Abdulai Jiwoh, declined to comment on the $300 billion figure on Saturday, saying This is what always the developed world does to us in all multilateral agreements,
said Panama’s climate envoy, Juan Carlos Monterrey Gómez For us, this isn’t only about money. It’s about survival. I think that gets forgotten here.”
Sitting on a couch in the rapidly emptying conference venue, Belize’s permanent U.N. representative Carlos Fuller said It is iffy whether we will succeed.”
European Union Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra said I’m also listening to ‘Bitch Better Have My Money’ by Rihanna nonstop.”
We need to get an agreement. This is really important that we give hope to the world, that multilateralism can work, that we are responding to the climate crisis,
You claim to champion a rules-based system, yet flout the rules when they don't suit your interests, putting at risk billions of people and life on Earth,
Who created this pollution that we have? It’s 120 years of industrial revolution,
Saudi Arabia’s climate envoy, Adel Al-Jubeir, said
