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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.”
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,
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,
The rich world staged a great escape in Baku,
said Mohamed Adow, the Kenyan director of Power Shift Africa, a think tank This document is little more than an optical illusion,
India’s delegate Chandni Raina said 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 The developing countries are now saying that it is better to have no agreement than a bad one,
said the diplomat, who was granted anonymity to discuss closed-door talks There’s a lot of waiting and seeing what the other country will do and what the other group of countries will do: ‘But if these people are not doing this, then I can’t do that,
China is a bit complex, but at the same time, we do see leadership from China,
said Harjeet Singh, global engagement director with the environmental group Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative This has become the COP of uncertainty because of that change,
The U.S. elections and many other geopolitical events have changed what [the rich countries] could have provided,
said Michai Robertson, lead finance negotiator for a coalition of island states
