Australia urged to do more on climate crisis as activists rue trillion-dollar Cop29 funding gap

We’ve pushed for ambition in Baku and have restored the UK back to a position of global climate leadership,

Sir Keir added

It will help all countries to share in the huge benefits of bold climate action: more jobs, stronger growth, cheaper and cleaner energy for all

He added

It is not everything we or others wanted but [it] is a step forward for us all

After the deal was announced at the Cop29 conference in Baku, he said

I will be making the argument that the private sector ought to be paying into that.

Sir Keir Starmer has refused to commit to how much more taxpayers will have to pay towards this sum, but said while attending the two-week summit in Azerbaijan

As a wealthy nation, and a huge fossil fuel exporter, the Australian government notably failed to drive bigger ambition. This is about realism. Getting better financial arrangements is key to getting global support for rapid fossil-fuel phase-out globally.”

She added

Australia must also honour the spirit of [last year’s] commitment to transition away from fossil fuels and replace its exports of coal and gas with renewable energy,

she said

Now we need to get on with action to build the renewables, implement the transition and turn our complete attention to developing 2035 emission reduction targets due next year,

he said

It was hard fought over, but at $300bn per year led by developed to developing countries, we have arrived at the boundary between what is politically achievable today in developed countries and what would make a difference in developing countries,

said Avinash Persaud, an expert on climate finance at the Inter-American Development Bank, who has served as an adviser to Barbados prime minister, Mia Mottley

That the developed countries are saying that they are taking the lead with $300bn by 2035 is a joke,

a delegate from Nigeria said after the document’s adoption

This has been casually dismissed,

an LDC statement said

The destruction of our planet is avoidable, but not with this shabby and dishonorable deal,

she said

The gavel was hit way too fast and our heart goes out to all those nations that feel like they were walked over,

he said

It’s unclear what the legalities here are,

she said

The climate summit in Baku was not a success, but at best the avoidance of a diplomatic disaster,

he said

All developing countries need finance,

she said,

Developing countries have been forced to accept half measures, Cop after Cop, but at Cop29 these half measures push the costs of climate change on to the people least responsible but suffering the worst consequences,

she said

The rich world staged a great escape in Baku,

said Mohamed Adow, the Kenyan director of Power Shift Africa, a think tank

The amount that is proposed to be mobilized is abysmally poor. It's a paltry sum,

said Indian delegate Chandni Raina

This Cop has been a disaster for the developing world,

said Mohamed Adow, director of Power Shift Africa

No country got everything they wanted, and we leave Baku with a mountain of work still to do. So this is no time for victory laps,

he remarked