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We absolutely object to the unfair means followed for adoption,
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 It’s a paltry sum,
India negotiator Chandni Raina said, repeatedly saying how India objected to rousing cheers It has been a difficult journey, but we’ve delivered a deal,
Steill said after the agreement was adopted This package is an affront to us. We are the countries that have the most at stake,
said Tina Stege, climate envoy of the Marshall Islands, an atoll nation threatened by rising seas I know that none of us want to leave Baku without a good outcome,
I think it caught a lot of people by surprise,
said Brazil's climate envoy, Ana Toni We will not allow the most vulnerable, especially the small island states, to be ripped off by the new, few rich fossil fuel emitters,
said German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock I think being ambitious at this point is not going to be very useful."
South African Environment Minister Dion George, however, said After the difficult experience that we're having here in Baku, we need to reach some outcome that is minimally acceptable in line with the emergency we're facing,
Brazil's environment minister Marina Silva told delegates I'm sad, I'm tired, I'm disheartened, I'm hungry, I'm sleep-deprived, but there is a tiny ray of optimism within me because this cannot become a new Copenhagen,
When it comes to money it's always controversial but we are expecting a deal tonight,
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 It is iffy whether we will succeed.”
European Union Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra said 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 This is what always the developed world does to us in all multilateral agreements,
said Panama’s climate envoy, Juan Carlos Monterrey Gómez I’m also listening to ‘Bitch Better Have My Money’ by Rihanna nonstop.”
