Keeping up with negotiations: COP29 tracker monitors progress
After a typically controversial start to the UN Climate summit this week, work is underway on a number of key agreements and corresponding legal documents. Here’s how you can easily stay on top of developments.
Carbon Brief has launched a new interactive tracker which allows users to monitor how talks and drafts are progressing towards key legal decisions which will eventually become binding agreements at COP29.
Already this year’s two-week summit has seen a major deal struck with global lenders including the World Bank, securing a 60% lift in financing for poor and developing nations struggling with climate change. Funding is a priority at the 2024 gathering.
Nevertheless, it’s speeches like this afternoon’s by Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama that often dominate headlines. The Balkan leader went ‘of script’ by abandoning his apparently ‘well-prepared’ address to call out the world’s richest and heaviest polluting nations for negligence and opting to deliver their own messages yesterday from the comfort of couches in a nearby room. This hypocrisy and sense of separation,Rama said, paints COP in a problematic light and betrays a ‘business as usual’ attitude among the most powerful decision makers on the planet.
‘People there eat, drink, meet and take photos together – while images of voiceless leaders play on and on and on in the background,’ he said. ‘To me, this seems exactly like what happens in the real world every day. Life goes on, with its old habits, and our speeches – full of good words about fighting climate change – change nothing… What does it mean for the future of the world if the biggest polluters continue as usual?’
Carbon Brief’s new online resource shows the topic of each document being drafted, has the option to search by specific keywords to understand what is currently in negotiation, and contains notes to update users on key elements in each draft. You can find the tool here.
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