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This COP has been a disaster for the developing world,
said Mohamed Adow, the Kenyan director of Power Shift Africa, a think tank It isn't nearly enough, but it's a start,
said Stege, whose atoll nation homeland faces an existential threat from creeping sea levels This is an insult".
Nigeria's envoy Nkiruka Maduekwe put it more bluntly We have all been working very hard over the past two weeks and I know that none of us want to leave Baku without a good outcome,
COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev told a plenary session which kicked off just after 8 pm local time on Saturday This is not the climate and environmental justice agenda that he got elected on,
Of course, it will not be better under Trump, but it’s really shameful what they’re doing under Biden,
said Victor Menotti, director of the International Forum on Globalization, after Podesta was hustled out of a side door by security personnel with television crews in hot pursuit It was hard fought" and the amount of financing "is at the boundary between what is politically achievable today in developed countries and what would make a difference in developing countries,
said Avinash Persaud, special advisor on climate change to the President of the Inter-American Development Bank The goal is too little, too distant,
she said, her speech punctuated frequently by applause and cheers COP29 took place in tough circumstances but multilateralism is alive and more necessary than ever,
Laurence Tubiana, chief executive office of European Climate Foundation, an architect of the landmark Paris Agreement No developing country will fall for this."
Mohamed Adow of Power Shift Africa had called the initial proposal "a slap in the face," stating What they’ve done essentially is undermine the mandate to try to reach 1.5,
said Tamara Gilbertson, climate justice program coordinator with the Indigenous Environmental Network The $300 billion goal is not enough, but is an important down payment toward a safer, more equitable future,
said World Resources Institute President Ani Dasgupta We absolutely object to the unfair means followed for adoption,
It’s a paltry sum,
India negotiator Chandni Raina said, repeatedly saying how India objected to rousing cheers The amount that is proposed to be mobilized is abysmally poor. It's a paltry sum,
said Indian delegate Chandni Raina We cannot accept it ... the proposed goal will not solve anything for us. [It is] not conducive to climate action that is necessary to the survival of our country,
she told the closing plenary, 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,
I am sorry to say that we cannot accept it. We seek a much higher ambition from developed countries.” ... The agreement was “nothing more than an optical illusion,
This [summit] has been a disaster for the developing world. It’s a betrayal of both people and planet, by wealthy countries who claim to take climate change seriously. Rich countries have promised to ‘mobilise’ some funds in the future, rather than provide them now. The cheque is in the mail. But lives and livelihoods in vulnerable countries are being lost now.”
Mohamed Adow, director of the Power Shift Africa think tank, said One nation has had an outsize role in undermining progress at global climate negotiations, year after year: Saudi Arabia. The fossil fuel giant has a 30-year record of obstruction and delay, protecting its national oil and gas sector and seeking to ensure UN climate talks achieve as little as possible, as slowly as possible.”
A 2023 report from the Climate Social Science Network concluded
