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

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

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

Mukhtar BabayevcOP29 President

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,

Menotti said

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

Avinash Persaudbarbadian academic

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

Laurence Tubianaeuropean Climate Foundation CEO

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,

Raina said

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,

he said in a statement