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COP29：对世界上最弱势群体的惊人背叛
日期：2024 年 11 月 24 日
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阿塞拜疆巴库 — 2024 年 11 月 24 日 |最不发达国家集团对 COP29 的结果感到愤怒和深深的伤害。再一次，对气候危机负有最大责任的国家辜负了我们。我们离开巴库时，没有雄心勃勃的气候融资目标，没有将全球气温上升限制在 1.5°C 的具体计划，也没有适应、损失和损害迫切需要的全面支持。
这不仅仅是一个失败;这是一种背叛。
最不发达国家 （LDC） 三年来致力于诚信、构建解决方案和争取正义的不懈努力被随意否定。大国没有表现出领导力，没有雄心壮志，也不关心生活在气候危机前线的数十亿人的生命。
刚刚结束的联合国气候变化大会证明了我们所担心的：我们 11 亿人的声音被忽视了。
尽管竭尽全力与主要参与者合作，但我们的请求遭到了冷漠。这种公然的否定侵蚀了支撑这些谈判的脆弱信任，并嘲笑了全球团结的精神。
被推平的新集体量化目标 （NCQG） 是这种失败的一个明显象征：
野心不见—— NCQG 在解决气候紧急情况的规模和紧迫性方面严重不足。
最弱势群体被排除在外 – 它忽视了最不发达国家和小岛屿发展中国家的需求，没有为我们的群体提供最低分配。
损失和损害被驳回 – 该计划缺乏有意义的支持，让我们的社区遭受苦难而无可奈何。
获得气候融资的机会被拒绝 – 薄弱和模糊的承诺未能改善最弱势群体获得气候融资的机会。
未定义的气候融资 – 缺乏明确的定义会破坏透明度，为操纵和不作为敞开大门。
既有机制被搁置：根据《公约》和《巴黎协定》，无法保证资金流经受信任的实体。
这个结果是一种嘲讽。它牺牲了世界上最贫穷和最脆弱人群的需求，以保护制造这场危机的人的狭隘利益。它优先考虑利润和便利，而不是生存和正义。
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最不发达国家 （LDC） 集团由非洲、亚太和加勒比地区的 45 个国家组成，总人口超过 10 亿。我们国家极易受到环境和经济冲击的影响，并且受到气候危机的影响尤为严重，因此我们国家在联合国气候谈判中作为一个集团共同谈判，以促进我们在公平和雄心勃勃的全球应对气候变化方面的共同利益。
Evans Njewa 是最不发达国家集团的现任主席，也是马拉维政府气候变化和《联合国气候变化框架公约》协调人。
阿塞拜疆巴库 – 联合国气候变化大会 （COP29） 已结束，就 3000 亿美元的新公共气候融资目标达成了最低限度的协议。
COP29 绿色和平代表团负责人 Jasper Inventor 表示：“商定的财务目标严重不足，并且被绝望程度和所需的行动规模所掩盖。多边主义的最好和最坏都是孤立的阻碍者和艰难的谈判阻碍了变革，直到达成协议敲响了丧钟。
“我们真正的对手是绝望的化石燃料商人和鲁莽的自然破坏者，他们紧紧地躲在每个政府的低气候雄心背后。他们的游说者必须被禁止，领导人需要鼓起勇气站在历史的正确一边。
“人们受够了，幻灭了，但我们会坚持和抵抗，因为这是一场为我们的未来而战！”我们不会放弃。当我们期待在贝伦举行的 COP30 时，我们必须坚持希望——希望牢牢地建立在要求气候雄心的人们身上。
关于新的气候融资目标，绿色和平国际气候政治专家 Tracy Carty 补充道：“痛苦的失望。到 2035 年 3000 亿美元太少了，也太晚了。发达国家空空如也地来到这里，可耻地压榨发展中国家同意。但这一融资目标并不能保证它不会通过贷款或私人融资来实现，而是通过发展中国家迫切需要的基于赠款的公共财政来实现。
“如果发达国家担心他们能负担得起什么，我们不要忘记污染石油和天然气公司赚取的数十亿美元的利润，并将账单发送给他们。化石燃料行业已经免除了任何支付责任，并将一路笑到银行。一线希望是达成协议，在 COP30 之前制定扩大融资的路线图：这必须是让污染者买单的路线图。
关于缓解措施，绿色和平荷兰气候与能源活动家 Maarten de Zeeuw 表示：“房间里的大象是化石燃料生产商阻碍了进展。减缓进展停滞不前令人震惊，但尽管化石燃料游说者在大厅里徘徊，我们还是阻止了 COP28 从化石燃料过渡的决定倒退。
“然而，在不断恶化的热带气旋、创纪录的野火、历史性的干旱和前所未有的海洋变暖中，全球气候运动比以往任何时候都更加坚定。我们的未来岌岌可危！明年的 2035 年气候行动计划必须成为我们气候斗争的转折点，以实现一个充满希望的《巴黎协定》周年纪念日。
针对第 6 条的协议，绿色和平国际生物多样性政治专家 An Lambrechts 表示：“在 COP29 上达成的碳市场机制不是气候融资解决方案，只会为污染严重的化石燃料行业提供一条生命线，使其能够抵消排放。
“这种机制是一个气候骗局，应该让污染者付费来清理他们造成的混乱，但他们却赢得了一张免于牢狱之灾的卡。巴库现在是臭名昭著的抵消 COP，碳市场漏洞百出，明显缺乏诚信。
“但一切都没有失去。我们看到了协调全球气候和生物多样性行动以及在两者之间架起桥梁的势头。在亚马逊贝伦举行的 COP30 上，是时候将气候和生物多样性的斗争联系起来了。
绿色和平东亚全球政策顾问姚哲表示：“中国的决定很重要。COP29 表明了对气候领导力的明确需求，但一个价值万亿的问题是，中国有多大决心将其在清洁技术方面的优势转化为领导力？
“从现在到贝伦，中国有可能通过提出强有力的 NDC 并概述其摆脱化石燃料的转型计划来重振多边进程。这个 NDC 可以提供一盏明灯，并参与到气候斗争中来。
绿色和平组织巴西项目主任 Raíssa Ferreira 表示：“在这里达成气候融资协议对于提高雄心并在 COP30 之前做好准备至关重要。我们呼吁卢拉总统接过接力棒，加强气候和生物多样性之间的协同作用，并展示真正的全球气候领导力。我们将坚持我们的要求。
绿色和平非洲泛非政治战略家 Fred Njehu 表示：“ 全球北方承认我们 1.3 万亿美元的需求，同时提供填满海洋的移液器，这是多么慷慨？这就像同意某人需要一个装满水库才能生存，然后递给他们一个滴管说，'祝你好运！
“这项金融交易不仅背叛了气候正义，而且嘲笑了污染者付费原则。那些靠化石燃料积累财富的国家现在提供创可贴，同时期望我们承担他们历史上排放的万亿美元负担。
“这不是气候融资——这是气候殖民主义。但非洲的精神始终如一。我们将把我们对气候正义的要求带到贝伦，坚持要求污染者最终为他们造成的破坏付出应有的代价。
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联系方式：
aaron.gray-block@greenpeace.org 年绿色和平国际组织气候政治传播专家 Aaron Gray-Block
Gaby Flores，国际绿色和平组织通讯协调员，+1 214 454 3871，cflores@greenpeace.org
绿色和平国际新闻台：+31 （0）20 718 2470（24 小时可用），pressdesk.int@greenpeace.org
内罗毕，2024 年 11 月 25 日：当我们吸收被称为“金融 COP”的 COP29 的成果时，它正在山区、山谷、海洋、河流和世界各地产生回荡，富裕国家再次得逞——拖延行动，逃避支付其行为受害者应得的赔偿责任。
3000 亿美元的目标远低于非洲和发展中国家为解决弱势群体的适应需求和气候资金缺口而推动的 1.3 万亿美元。
可悲的是，这些钱将有多种形式和来源，违背了《气候变化公约》和《巴黎协定》要求发达国家提供公共财政的原则的精神。显然，随着气候成为新的债务来源，发展中国家正在努力应对不断增长的发展需求，它们将陷入更深的债务泥潭。此外，该协议并没有给欠发达国家带来希望，这些国家由于财政空间有限而无法获得气候融资。
非洲的问题并不止于承诺的大小。第 6 条被搞砸了，以碳市场为中心，以动员气候融资为中心。这与《巴黎协定》背道而驰，将碳市场集中在气候融资上，而不是它们对减排的贡献，这个市场在排放达到峰值和侵犯人权方面发挥了惨淡的表现。
当时非洲被迫放弃天下午餐，从技术上讲，非洲被迫清理发达国家的污染烂摊子，以获得急需的气候资金。在这场以正义、公平、赔偿和应对气候弱势群体的需求为主导的 COP 会议上，这是一次背后捅刀子。不幸的是，关于碳市场的决定在 COP29 主席国的闭幕词中被称赞为一项突破——这是虚伪的高度。
对于 PACJA 来说，巴库仍然是 COP 历史上最糟糕的交易之一。在接下来的几天里，我们将对巴库进行广泛的分析，并为我们的会员、合作伙伴和其他利益相关者提供前进的道路。
澳大利亚国际发展委员会 （ACFID） 是澳大利亚非政府组织在海外提供气候项目的最高机构，它对缺乏公平且雄心勃勃的气候融资新集体量化目标 （NCQG） 感到失望。
COP29 以发达国家每年共同筹集 3000 亿美元的协议结束，用于发展中国家缓解和适应气候变化。
“可以理解的是，发展中国家对 COP29 新气候融资目标的不足感到非常失望。专家估计气候融资需求高达数万亿，但这个新的全球目标只会筹集到避免全球气候影响危险所需的一小部分资金，“ACFID的政策和政府关系负责人Alex Edney-Browne博士说。
这一目标比以前的全球承诺有所增加，但远低于专家估计的确保发展中国家能够实现其减缓目标并适应 2040 年之前已经观察到和预测的气候影响所需的数万亿人。
发展中国家对 COP29 的结果表示严重关切和失望。气候变化给发展中经济体带来的负担越来越重，这使得公平获得气候融资对于努力实现可持续发展目标的低收入国家来说比以往任何时候都更加重要。
“发达国家再次未能为其对气候危机的历史性和持续性贡献负责，发展中国家被迫承担更多债务来应对并非他们造成的危机，”埃德尼-布朗博士说。
“气候融资不是可有可无的。发展中国家必须承担关键的气候缓解和适应活动，将变暖控制在安全范围内，并适应极端高温、洪水、火灾和飓风等影响。
新的气候融资目标并未包括损失和损害，这意味着发达国家没有义务提供急需的损失和损害基金。
“ACFID 欢迎澳大利亚政府承诺向全球损失和损害基金提供 $50m。我们现在期待政府在新的全球气候融资目标下展示领导力。这意味着为实现 3000 亿美元的目标提供我们应得的高质量和基于赠款的气候融资，“Edney-Browne 博士说。
目标中没有包括最不发达国家和小岛屿发展中国家的最低目标。这意味着世界上最易受气候影响的社区将继续在获得气候融资方面遇到困难，尤其是在太平洋地区。
总体而言，COP29 的成果从根本上不尽如人意，在预计的气候影响下，发展中国家的处境将变得更糟。
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阿塞拜疆巴库（11 月 24 日）： COP29 的结果有可能在最关键的时刻阻碍气候行动。经过两周紧张和两极分化的谈判，各国达成了一项气候融资协议，但该协议无法满足发展中国家的需求。此外，本次缔约方会议未能就需要迅速减少排放和逐步淘汰化石燃料发出强烈信号。
世界自然基金会全球气候与能源负责人、前环境部长兼 COP20 主席曼努埃尔·普尔加-维达尔 （Manuel Pulgar-Vidal） 表示：“这项薄弱的气候融资协议让世界失望了。在地球的关键时刻，这一失败可能会阻碍全球应对气候危机的努力。它有可能使脆弱社区面临不断升级的气候灾难的冲击。这是对气候行动的严重打击，但它绝不能阻止世界各地迫切需要的解决方案。
“科学保持不变——我们必须在这十年中加快行动，以防止气候变化失控。所有国家和企业领导人都有责任站出来，超越这项协议的参数，并提供足够的资金水平来实现所需的转型变革。这个糟糕的交易绝不能阻止我们。我们需要投资于我们共同的未来。
“WWF 将继续努力，帮助确保这一以前已证明其韧性的多边进程得到加强，并能够提供世界需要的结果。”
就在本周，G20 领导人重申了迅速大幅扩大气候融资规模的必要性，从数十亿增加到数万亿。到 2035 年每年投入 3000 亿美元的承诺远未达到这一雄心壮志，在未来将走得太远，并且不符合支持发展中国家采取重要气候行动所需的资金。
在最后一刻，文本中添加了为发展中国家扩大融资规模至 1.3 万亿美元的路线图，但这几乎没有理由对这一水平的融资有信心。即将上任的巴西轮值主席国需要各方的参与，以管理这一路线图进程，以便在贝伦举行的 COP30 上取得有意义的成果，以确保筹集大量资金。
世界自然基金会全球气候与能源政策负责人费尔南达·卡瓦略 （Fernanda Carvalho） 表示：“在各国决定新的国家气候计划的一年里，COP29 没有发出关于需要减少排放和逐步淘汰化石燃料的强烈信息，并以充足的资金为后盾，这是不可接受的。各国绝不能让这一可怕的结果减损提高减排目标、推进能源转型和适应气温上升后果的迫切需要。除非发达国家远远超出这一融资目标，使 1.3 万亿美元的巴库到贝伦路线图变得具体，否则脆弱社区将越来越容易受到毁灭性的气候影响，将全球变暖限制在 1.5oC 的窗口将关闭。
世界自然基金会（WWF）气候与自然高级专家凡妮莎·莫拉莱斯（Vanessa Morales）表示：“尽管气候和自然有着千丝万缕的联系，但政府发出了微弱的信号，表明需要同时加快对两者的行动。大自然在会外活动和外围倡议中占有重要地位，但在正式谈判中没有归宿，我们就有可能将气候行动的这一关键要素边缘化。如果我们要为子孙后代确保一个有生命力的地球，气候和自然必须齐头并进。
阿塞拜疆巴库，23 年 2024 月 29 日——国际环境法中心 （CIEL） 的专家表示，第 29 届联合国气候大会 （COP300） 今天结束，在富裕国家拒绝履行其向全球南方提供充足气候融资的法律义务后，29 亿美元的新气候融资目标严重不足。COP<> 在财务承诺方面取得了淡化的结果，无视气候问责的呼吁，这标志着又一次错失了对气候危机采取果断行动的机会。
发展中国家每年至少需要 1.3 万亿的气候资金用于减缓、适应以及损失和损害——这只是富裕国家每年用于化石燃料补贴和战争的一小部分。
富裕国家未能履行其法律义务，在无债务公共财政中提供自己的份额，在没有像碳市场这样危险的漏洞或干扰的情况下逐步淘汰化石燃料，以及维护人权和公民空间。
“COP29 是一场垃圾箱大火。只不过燃烧的不是垃圾——而是我们的星球。发达国家既有火柴，也有火线。他们拒绝为气候行动和损害付出代价，或者按照他们的法律义务逐步淘汰化石燃料，这剥夺了全球南方国家应得的待遇，并将宜居的未来置于风险之中，“CIEL的气候与能源项目主任Nikki Reisch说。 “这种侮辱性的结果应该归咎于大型污染者。几十年来，他们淡化了自己的法律义务，阻止气候谈判以所需的紧迫性、雄心和公平性来应对气候危机。通过允许碳去除抵消进入气候制度，并允许化石燃料游说者参与这些谈判，他们通过雄心壮志挖空子，让狐狸进入鸡舍。同样的富裕国家不愿筹集资源来确保全球摆脱化石燃料的过渡，他们正在通过数万亿美元的补贴和对新项目的投资来支撑化石燃料行业。
Reisch 强调说：“通过逃避他们的法律义务，大型污染者试图使《巴黎协定》化为乌有。 对气候危机的问责不会随着 COP29 达成的薄弱协议而结束。公民社会运动将继续要求正义，污染者将继续在世界各地的法庭和舆论法庭上被追究责任。<>月在国际法院举行的气候听证会为澄清各国在国际法下的法律义务提供了一个机会。这种明确性可能被证明是一剂强有力的解药，可以解决在巴库充分展示的政治惰性和最低公分母结果。
国际环境法中心（Center for International Environmental Law）的其他法律、气候和人权专家指出，COP29 在融资、逐步淘汰化石燃料或气候行动中保障人权方面几乎没有取得进展。在第一天推平了 UNFCCC 批准的碳市场的最后障碍后，COP29 以通过的规则结束，这些规则缺乏对不会产生排放影响或侵犯权利的碳抵消的任何检查。
“为污染付费永远不会成为气候解决方案，碳市场也永远不会成为气候融资。建立一个受巴黎协定批准的碳市场，可能比丑闻缠身的自愿碳市场更危险，这对人类或地球来说都不是一件好事。这是污染大户和碳牛仔的胜利。而且它并不能弥补未能提供公共资金的不足。同意缺乏透明度、问责制或有意义监督的薄弱规则不是实现更雄心勃勃的气候行动的合作方法，而是灾难的根源，“CIEL 高级律师 Erika Lennon 说。 “随着方法和驱逐标准的敲槌，《巴黎协定》信用机制已经向驱逐活动敞开了大门，这些活动只不过是一种危险的分散注意力。展望未来，必须确保该机制执行其标准，并适当确保其他相关国际环境协议（包括暂停地球工程的协议）适用于活动。
推进碳市场的运作为污染者继续未能逐步淘汰提供了一个逃生口。为污染付费永远不会成为气候解决方案，碳市场也永远不会成为气候融资，而是将负担转移到对气候危机责任最小的人身上。
“在今年的气候谈判中，我们目睹了公司的巨大游说努力，这些公司将投机性和不可靠的碳捕获与封存 （CCS） 技术作为气候解决方案进行推广。但 CCS 一再未能兑现承诺。相反，它只会制造漏洞和理由，让污染者继续污染，“CIEL 碳捕获全球活动家 Rachel Kennerley 说。 “在 COP480 上有 29 名 CCS 游说者，很明显，尽管需要采取气候行动，但化石燃料行业正在大力投资销售 CCS 以确保他们的未来。不幸的是，各国似乎正在接受白日梦。COP29 的结果为这种被证明失败的技术和其他虚假解决方案（如碳市场、天然气和氢）打开了窗户。碳捕集与封存正在从我们需要的真正气候行动中吸走能源和资金。
该协议远未达到确保在全球范围内快速公平地逐步淘汰化石燃料、适应不断变化的气候或保护对气候影响日益严重但受到最大伤害的人的权利所需的内容。
“在 COP29 上，气候融资结果被推向气候脆弱国家的喉咙，这是一项糟糕交易的定义。300 亿美元的新气候融资目标只是巨大且不断增长的需求的沧海一粟，实际上剥夺了为那些处于气候危机前线的人们提供任何形式的正义，并将发展中国家推向更深的债务。这项协议没有真正承诺提供基于赠款的资金，并且漏洞百出，无法避免任何支付义务，这是富裕国家继续试图破坏联合国气候协议和逃避国际法下长期义务的又一次证明，“CIEL 人权和气候变化高级活动家 Lien Vandamme 说。将损失和损害排除在气候融资目标之外是令人愤慨的。它否认历史上主要污染者有义务补救气候危机造成的巨大危害，而从财政目标中删除所有对人权的提及是另一个迹象，表明气候谈判正在脱离现有法律规范而发展。没有人权保障的气候融资目标——尤其是包括私人融资的目标——将加剧对社区和生态系统的危害。国际法院即将对各国在气候变化背景下的法律义务进行澄清，这既及时又紧迫。
谈判在一个有侵犯人权记录且公民空间受到严重限制的国家举行，人权状况出现重大倒退，反映了今年许多国家更广泛的政治气候。
“气候紧急情况需要由公众参与和问责制推动的大胆行动，但 COP29 远未达到这两个标准。COP29 在阿塞拜疆主办，在会议前逮捕民间社会成员和记者，镇压了异议，反映了东道国对基本权利的蔑视，“CIEL 高级律师兼人权和气候变化经理 Sébastien Duyck 说。“联合国通过减少会议内的言论使问题复杂化，尽管化石燃料游说者蓬勃发展，努力淡化气候承诺。如果未来的缔约方大会很重要，各国和联合国必须拒绝企业干预，并大力保护推动紧急气候行动所需的公民空间。
人权和气候变化项目助理卡米拉·波莱拉 （Camilla Pollera） 指出：“COP29 未能优先考虑性别正义，这是巴库走错路的又一次证明。尽管迫切需要雄心勃勃的性别公正气候成果，但谈判面临任何可能加强利马性别工作计划的建议的持续阻力，最终以薄弱的结果告终。站在前线并挺身而出维护环境权利的女性面临着独特的威胁，因为她们在面对根深蒂固的性别歧视的同时，也面临着对土地和自然资源的开发。最终决定错失了确保对女性环境人权维护者提供全面保护和支持的机会。COP 上缺乏保护他们基本权利的政治承诺，进一步边缘化了他们的声音，削弱了对公正和有效气候行动的追求。现在，新的性别行动计划必须填补这一空白。“
阿塞拜疆巴库（23 年 2024 月 2024 日）——今天，保护国际基金会首席战略官帕特里夏·祖里塔 （Patricia Zurita） 在 29 年联合国气候变化框架公约缔约方会议（简称 COP29）结束后发表了以下声明。COP<> 在周六的新巴库气候统一一揽子计划中达到高潮。
Zurita 说：
“在对领导力的质疑、外交争吵和对 COP 系统的指责中，近 200 个国家签署了巴库气候团结一揽子计划，其中包括一个新的气候融资目标。虽然不完美的进步仍然是进步，但我们需要看到更多的雄心和速度来保持 1.5 摄氏度的活力。
“虽然各国避免了彻底的灾难，但 COP29 以有意义的方式失败了。最值得注意的是，到 1 年每年 3.2035 万亿美元的目标并未实现。它在速度或规模上根本不够。发达国家承诺的 300 亿美元也没有兑现。
“此外，领导人未能强调逐步淘汰化石燃料的重要性，这是每个国家在 COP28 上承诺采取措施的，并继续令人不安地忽视自然及其与气候稳定性的相关性。忽视自然作为气候解决方案的基础作用是无法理解的;即使我们明天奇迹般地停止了所有化石燃料的使用，科学家们也同意，如果不保护自然，我们就会超越我们的气候目标。我们将继续在屋顶上大声疾呼这一信息，直到领导人认真对待它所要求的迅速行动。
“但仍然有理由感到乐观。在会议最令人鼓舞的突破中，各国就《巴黎协定》第 6 条的未决要素巩固了急需的共识。经过多年的繁文缛节，国与国之间的排放交易现在可以在通用程序、报告要求和高度诚信方面更加明确地向前发展。联合国集中贸易更接近全面运作，其余主题将在 2025 年全年提交讨论。令我们感到欣慰的是，第 6 条现在也认识到土著知识和实践的价值，这将进一步确保这些资金有助于保护我们碳含量最高的森林，并为世界各地的当地社区带来生计机会。
“剖析结果很重要，但纸上谈兵并不是我们唯一关心的问题。我们还让巴库对 COP 过程中缺乏包容性和透明度感到困扰，发展中国家绝不能被排除在关键对话之外。小岛屿国家和其他发展中国家的声音往往被边缘化。因此，当今面临气候变化最极端后果的国家，那些对气候变化的产生负有最小责任的国家，正在听到一个可怕的信息：他们的存在是可以商量的。
“尽管虚无主义很诱人，但各国不能放弃多边气候外交;风险太高了。在全世界期待明年在巴西举行的 COP30 之际，各国领导人必须再次承诺达成《巴黎协定》并自那时以来取得进展的妥协和承诺水平。人类的未来悬而未决;我们别无选择，只能弄清楚这一点。我们别无选择，只能一起做。
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虽然在 COP29 上达成的协议避免了立即失败，但它远非成功。在气候融资和摆脱化石燃料转型等关键问题上，这又是最低限度的。
我们不能继续依赖最后一刻的折衷措施。今天的领导人通过专注于远远超出他们自己任期的长期、雄心勃勃的目标来逃避他们的责任。为了应对我们这个时代的挑战，我们需要以月和年为单位采取真正的行动，而不是几十年和四分之一个世纪。
巴库的这一经历揭示了 COP 过程中更深层次的缺陷，包括化石燃料利益的巨大影响，自该过程开始以来就一直阻碍着这一过程。沙特阿拉伯王国尤其阻挠。为了赚更多的钱，把人类的未来置于严重的风险之中，这确实是可耻的行为。改革这一过程，使污染者得不到有效控制，必须是一个优先事项。
在气候融资方面，我们未来几年的首要任务不仅是履行和发展 COP29 上商定的财政承诺，而且为发展中国家释放更大规模的负担得起的公平私人资本流动。
最终，在 COP29 之后，我们必须将失望转化为决心。我们可以解决气候危机。我们能否及时实现《巴黎协定》的目标将取决于接下来会发生什么。
巴库，阿塞拜疆。ACT 联盟对 COP 29 的结果以及未能确保最贫穷和最脆弱国家的最低要求表示深深的失望。这一结果表明 COP29 主席国的领导能力薄弱，未能履行取得有意义进展的责任。经过三年的谈判，新集体量化目标 （NCQG） 是本届“财务 COP”财务承诺的核心，但这一结果显然是不够的。缺乏雄心壮志和对受气候危机影响最严重的人的支持不足，破坏了对这一过程的信任，并阻碍了应对不断升级的全球紧急情况所需的紧急行动
“事实证明，COP29 令人大失所望，”ACT 津巴布韦论坛协调员 Sostina Takure 说。“未能满足最脆弱国家的需求在所有轨道上都很明显。在雄心勃勃的语言方面，特别是在性别文本方面，有一个非常明显的倒退。我们辜负了遭受气候变化后果的妇女和女童，并将希望寄托在这一进程上。如果没有对穷国和弱势国家的直接有力的财政承诺，就不可能有穷国和弱势国家的有效参与。
“在地球在许多方面都感到脆弱的时候，COP 期间缺乏真正的进展，这表明对这些问题和遭受气候破坏影响的人们缺乏真正的关心，”美国长老会北欧和中欧区域联络员 Alethia White 说。“与此同时，任何协议都是受欢迎的，我向那些出现、坚持、选择忽略分歧并在困难时坐在同一张桌子上的政府和谈判代表表示敬意。在我参加 COP 期间，我听到了一种观点，即如果我们呆在舒适区，变化就不会发生。为了所有人的利益，我们需要集体走出舒适区工作。
ACT 对谈判的关键方面发表了评论：
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期待已久的就新集体量化目标达成一致的时刻在凌晨到来，人们非常担心和担心 COP 29 可能失败。现在已经决定了。但发达国家设定的 300B 美元动员额与弥合资金缺口所需的金额相去甚远。前方的道路似乎黯淡无光，但希望仍然存在。我们必须不惜一切代价将公平和公正作为为减缓、适应和应对损失和损害提供资金以及实施商定决定的核心。
“COP29 协议代表着向前迈出了一小步，但令人沮丧的是，它未能解决我们在南半球的合作伙伴和国家办事处中目睹的巨大而紧迫的需求，”DanChurchAid 全球气候负责人兼 ACT 联盟气候正义参考小组联合主席 Mattias Söderberg 说。
“我们谴责在 COP29 上缺乏关于气候融资的有意义的成果。经过三年的谈判，脆弱国家仍然没有得到他们迫切需要的支持。这种未能兑现是对气候正义和全球团结的背叛，“基督教援助会气候正义政策负责人 Illari Aragon 说。
“可耻的是，发达国家一直不愿意听取科学的意见并致力于实现基于需求的气候融资目标，”挪威教会援助组织气候政策顾问 Matilde Angeltveit 继续说道。“在三年的谈判中，他们拒绝公开谈论他们愿意提供什么，危及巴黎协定，以避免承担责任并支付他们应得的份额。富裕国家不能在科学上妥协，他们需要每年向发展中国家提供至少 1T 的基于赠款的气候融资。
适应
虽然 COP29 未能推进关于国家适应计划的指导，但 ACT 确实承认，为建立一个强大的框架来评估全球适应目标 （GGA） 的进展而进行的谈判在巴库取得了罕见的成功。指标的完善以重要的基于人权的原则为指导，这些原则既由地方主导，又具有包容性。
“这套指标还旨在监测适应资金与所需行动之间的巨大差距。我们需要让那些动员资金的人负责，在减缓和适应之间取得平衡，此外，遵守大幅扩大适应资金的决定，“Felt 的首席宣传专家 Niko Humalisto 说。
Andrew Fuys 说：“发达国家未能以科学所需的规模为气候行动提供资金，只会增加气候引起的流离失所的风险。更多地将难民和移民纳入适应工作虽然受到欢迎，但如果没有实现这些努力所需的资金，就毫无意义。
缓解
COP29 在减缓气候变化方面取得的进展微乎其微，在 COP30 上将这一话题推向了巴西，但巴库缺乏进展进一步危及人类将全球气温上升限制在 1.5 摄氏度的能力。“COP29 的结果与下一代 NDC 所需的雄心不符，”ACT 联盟气候正义参考小组联合主席、路德会世界联合会气候正义项目执行官 Elena Cedillo 说。“如果各国没有与 1.5°C 保持一致的承诺，将失去实现 1.5°C 目标的机会。跟踪承诺对于确保问责制并将雄心转化为实际有效的行动至关重要。
丢失和损坏
气候变化造成的损失和损害问题没有得到解决，仅在 NCQG 中得到承认。经济和非经济损失都对人权产生深远影响，是更多不平等现象的前兆，也是全球社区深切关注的根源。
土著和弱势社区，包括依赖自然资源和生计选择的边缘化群体和个人，受到的打击最为严重，在生计、文化认同、遗产和习俗方面遭受毁灭性损失，在许多情况下，由于气候引发的灾害而被迫搬迁。这些不仅仅是可衡量的损失和损害，而且是不可替代的。COP29 未能提供必要的解决方案，以真正避免、减少和解决气候脆弱社区的需求。
“我感到愤怒的是，在短短四个星期内，六台风袭击了菲律宾，而 COP29 的收益基本上为零，”菲律宾全国教会理事会人道主义经理帕特里夏·蒙卡尔 （Patricia Mungcal） 说。“我将告诉成千上万被这些强台风摧毁的菲律宾家庭，世界领导人让我们遭受气候危机最严重的影响，无视我们对资金和赔偿的要求。这种未能解决损失和损害问题的做法是对我们人类尊严和权利的严重漠视。我们将 COP29 的失败归咎于富裕、污染严重的国家的道德破产。
ELNG 普世中心和 ACT 联盟移民和流离失所参考小组 Katherine Braun 继续说道：“缺乏对人权和性别平等促进方法的政治意愿，使移民、难民和流离失所者处于极端脆弱的境地，并面临侵犯人权的行为。经济和非经济损失和损害是巨大的。在 COP28 上启动的损失和损害基金是应对流离失所社区和个人的紧急需求向前迈出的一大步，但如果没有有意义的资金，他们就会再次落后。
性
“考虑到不平等使多元化的妇女和女孩、土著群体、少数族裔和残疾人面临更高的气候脆弱性，我们期望制定一份更雄心勃勃、更具规范性的性别计划文件，”瑞典 Act Church 的 Margareta Koltai 说。“我们没有进入一个新的水平，而是不得不为早期的语言辩护，以避免出现更加淡化的版本。很明显，存在性别阻力。有一些行为者，包括信仰行为者，捍卫父权价值观，并用更具交叉性和基于权利的语言阻止文本。这清楚地表明，普世运动在捍卫性别平等和推动决策桌上更好的性别平衡方面发挥着非常重要的作用。我们必须确保世界 50% 以上的人口在气候决策中不落后。（Margareta Koltai，瑞典 Act 教会）
“作为一名年轻女性，我敦促对新的性别行动计划做出坚定不移的承诺，并在其五个优先领域采取有意义的行动：性别能力、性别平衡、性别一致性、促进性别平等的实施和透明的性别监测。至关重要的是，新一代 NDC 和 NAP 必须整合和维护 GAP 的这些基本组成部分，“LWF 代表、巴西路德教信条福音派教会成员 Carine Josiéle Wendland 说
青年
“有信仰的年轻人已经受够了空话。我们坚持认为一个更好的世界是可能的，这不是一个天真的梦想，而是一种深刻的精神信念。作为年轻人，我们的领导力在这场运动中至关重要，我们是在世界各地社区领导应对气候变化的项目的人，但除非年轻人也完全参与气候谈判，并且我们的故事和观点得到认真对待，否则世界将无法实现气候正义，“路德会世界联合会的萨瓦娜·沙利文 （Savanna Sullivan） 说。
“看到全球政治意愿仍然缺乏，这是令人痛苦的。作为来自发展中国家的年轻人，我敦促主要排放国倾听，采取果断行动，并为我们共同家园的福祉承担责任，“LWF 代表、河床福音派教会/ACT LAC 区域论坛成员 Romario Dohmann 说。
对未来的希望
“从现在到下一届 COP 之间，必须有一个耐心、谨慎的策略来培养参与者之间的信任和友谊。上帝赐予我们照顾所有地球生命所需的一切，“澳大利亚圣公会主教菲利普·哈金斯 （Philip Huggins） 说。“我们只需要更好地应用我们共同的学习来建立真正美妙的关系。”
来自美国长老会的怀特对此表示赞同。“虽然在经历了如此艰难的 COP 经历后很难感到希望，但必须有希望才能取得有意义的进展，无论是在地缘政治层面、国际领域还是在当地社区内部。”
“让我们明确一点。如果世界上最富有的国家认真对待这次金融 COP，工作、家园和生命将因气候变化影响而丧失，而这些影响本可以挽救。
“相反，这些富裕国家屈服于少数国家的化石燃料利益，将自己的消费欲望置于非洲、亚洲、南美洲和加勒比地区数十亿人的福祉之上。
“人们生活在危机的前线，他们几乎没有参与制造。
“发达国家应对导致气候变化的排放负责，也要为导致自然破坏的大部分过度消费负责。如果 COP29 的公平结果将承认这一点，气候融资和赠款将明显多于最终成为新集体量化目标的资金和赠款。
“有很多模糊的词语和虚假的语言，这为创造性会计留下了巨大的空间。再加上没有为最脆弱国家提供资金的确切目标，这感觉就像是阻碍富裕排放者的秘诀，也是给最受影响的社区带来毁灭的道路。
世界动物保护组织今天在 COP29 结束后发出了严厉警告，该会议认为新集体量化目标 （NCQG） 下的一揽子融资计划严重达不到应对不断升级的气候危机所需的规模。
虽然 3000 亿美元的承诺在纸面上取得了进展，但这只是所要求的 1.3 万亿美元的一小部分，经济学家认为这对于减轻气候变化的灾难性影响、保护脆弱社区、保护野生动物和停止工业规模的动物痛苦至关重要。
世界动物保护组织（World Animal Protection）对外参与主任凯利·登特（Kelly Dent）出席了在阿塞拜疆举行的峰会，他说：
COP29 将作为“伟大的金融逃生”而被人们铭记。经过为期两周的有争议的谈判，其中充斥着拖延策略和被削弱的雄心壮志，发达国家再次推卸责任，在地球燃烧，数百万人类和动物受苦时，只不过是一个象征性的姿态。
这不仅仅是为了保持 1.5°C 的生存，也是为了那些养活世界但面临被遗弃的人们，为那些在崩溃中摇摇欲坠的生态系统，以及为数十亿动物在利润驱动、气候破坏的工业化农业机器中受苦的人伸张正义。
相反，我们只剩下伪装成解决方案的象征主义，而生物多样性危机加速，栖息地被破坏，动物受苦，整个社区对气候变化不断升级的影响毫无防备。
未能解决根本原因 - 工业化农业
全球粮食系统的排放仍然是导致气候变化的最大单一因素，但 COP29 未能充分解决这一关键领域问题。工业化农业，尤其是工厂化农业，是气候变化的根源，助长了排放，破坏了栖息地，加剧了粮食不安全，并以惊人的不人道规模延续了虐待动物的行为。
Dent 强调了变革的迫切需求。她补充说：
我们不能继续支持一个导致气候崩溃、生物多样性丧失和人类苦难的系统。可持续、人道和公平的生态农业实践必须取代破坏性的工业化农业模式。这些解决方案不仅解决了气候危机，还阻止了被困在工厂化农场中的数十亿动物的痛苦。
Big Ag 对气候辩论的扼杀
虽然在 COP29 上发起的 Harmoniya 气候倡议带来了一些希望，但其潜力被行业游说者的巨大影响力所掩盖。
登特指出了 Big Agriculture在塑造错误解决方案中的普遍作用。 她说：
小规模生产者的声音——正是掌握着可持续食品系统关键的人——正在被保护地球利润的行业游说者所淹没。如果 UNFCCC 希望在贝伦 COP30 之前挽救信誉，就必须采取果断行动来削弱 Big Ag 的影响力。
呼吁在未来的 COP 中发挥雄心勃勃、强有力的领导作用
尽管 COP29 失败惨重，但世界动物保护组织坚定不移地履行其推动有意义变革的使命。
Dent 说：
领导者面临着一个严峻的选择：要么在未来几个月内挺身而出并采取实际行动，要么为这个毁灭的星球承担全部责任。贝伦将是一个决定性的时刻——全世界都在注视着，它需要勇气、雄心和责任感。
世界动物保护组织将继续推动向优先考虑人类福祉、保护动物并确保地球上所有生命的可持续未来的食品系统的公正过渡。
风险从未如此之高。现在是领导者采取行动的时候了，否则将面临他们不作为的毁灭性后果。
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马里兰州路德维尔（2024 年 11 月 25 日）——来自土地 COP29 代表团的解决方案从阿塞拜疆巴库举行的联合国气候变化会议回来，在为期 12 天的会议过程中，SfL 代表举办了四场活动，并在众多政府和合作伙伴论坛上发表了演讲。
尽管各方在损失和损害赔偿条款上仍然存在分歧，并且虽然之前承诺摆脱化石燃料的承诺出现了倒退，但在为碳市场开辟可能使农民受益的道路方面取得了一些进展。
尽管政策分歧继续阻碍全球温室气体减排目标的实现，但我们积极主动的干预措施帮助重新定位了关于农业的大部分叙述，成功地将农场、牧场和林地定位为应对气候变化、粮食不安全和生物多样性丧失等共同挑战的重要但未充分利用的解决方案途径。
我们也很高兴 SfL 的核心信息被参加会议的其他农场和价值链合作伙伴组织放大：1） 农民必须处于讨论和决策的中心;2） 国家必须促成结果，而不是规定做法;3） 盈利能力是从土地上解锁解决方案的关键。
我们期待着继续参与明年 11 月在巴西贝伦举行的 COP 30 之前的未来谈判。
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根据全球人道主义和女童权利组织澳大利亚国际计划（Plan International Australia）的数据，上周末在年度联合国气候变化大会（COP29）上达成的气候融资新协议令人大失所望，远未达到应对气候危机所需的水平。
新协议，即气候融资新集体量化目标 （NCQG），在数量上不足——到 2035 年只有 3000 亿美元，远低于处于世界上最严重和最频繁气候灾难前线的全球南方国家一直呼吁的 1.3 万亿美元。它也没有包括为适应和损失与损害提供资金支持的具体目标。
这一结果也是公平进展的重大挫折，没有具体的途径来解决受气候危机影响最严重的人的需求，包括儿童，尤其是受到不成比例影响的女孩。
这是一个错失的重大机会，可以确保每天与气候变化的严峻现实作斗争的社区获得关键的、拯救生命的支持，这是他们的人权。
特别是太平洋地区的社区已经直面气候危机，女孩和年轻女性首当其冲，失学，面临粮食不安全和更大的性别暴力风险。他们的生活正在被气候变化从根本上永远地改变。在我们最近的研究中，接受调查的太平洋岛民女孩中有一半报告说，由于气候事件而缺课。超过四分之一的女孩表示，由于气候危机，她们的食物减少了，近 20% 的女孩正在挨饿。根据澳大利亚乐施会的数据，在过去十年中，太平洋地区受气候灾害影响的人数增加了 700%。
“NCQG 的结果是毁灭性的。气候融资不是奢侈品。它是面临气候危机影响的社区的生命线。女童面临着最严重的气候危机，我们不能冒险让她们掉队。我们需要气候融资来确保代际和性别正义。不幸的是，这次 COP 浪费了实现这一目标的希望，“国际计划澳大利亚青年活动家、COP29 代表 Kupakwashe Matangira 说。
虽然 NCQG 协议敦促气候融资工作促进包括妇女、女孩、儿童和青年在内的弱势社区的包容性和利益，但它在纳入性别和代际正义原则方面存在严重不足。澳大利亚国际计划对 CO29 谈判期间报告的性别平等遭抵制和侵蚀感到震惊。对人权，特别是性别和代际正义的日益关注和关注，必须成为未来数月和数年国际气候行动的一个特点。
虽然 COP29 未能满足这一时刻，但年轻人表现出的承诺和领导力仍然是希望的灯塔，表明进步仍然是可能的。
“是 COP29 现场的年轻人让气候和性别正义的斗争继续进行。我们的倡导是坚定不移的;是我们继续挑战结构和系统，为公平公正的未来提供希望，让争取气候正义的斗争继续进行，“澳大利亚国际计划青年活动家、COP29 代表泰根·克拉克 （Tegan Clark） 说。
当我们展望明年在巴西举行的 COP30 时，很明显，儿童和年轻人将继续成为推动议程向前发展的核心。
“年轻人，尤其是女孩和年轻女性，为 COP29 带来的热情、决心和承诺是对未来的希望和乐观的标志，即使面对气候危机日益增长的影响，”国际计划澳大利亚首席执行官苏珊娜·莱格纳 （Susanne Legena） 说。
“在全世界为 COP30 做准备之际，将年轻人的声音放在最前沿至关重要。国际培幼会将继续倡导对性别正义、公平气候融资和气候危机的代际解决方案做出更有力的承诺。 COP30 的有力成果可能是一条生命线，而失败将是另一个浪费的机会，将今天和明天儿童的生命置于严重危险之中，“她说。
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COP29: A Staggering Betrayal of the World’s Most Vulnerable
Date: 24 November 2024
PRESS ADVISORY
Baku, Azerbaijan — 24th November 2024 | The LDC Group is outraged and deeply hurt by the outcome of COP29. Once again, the countries most responsible for the climate crisis have failed us. We leave Baku without an ambitious climate finance goal, without concrete plans to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C, and without the comprehensive support desperately needed for adaptation and loss and damage.
This is not just a failure; it is a betrayal.
Three years of relentless effort by the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) engaging in good faith, building solutions, and striving for justice have been casually dismissed. Powerful nations have shown no leadership, no ambition, and no regard for the lives of billions of people on the frontlines of the climate crisis.
The just ended UN Climate Change Conference has proven what we feared: the voices of our 1.1 billion people have been ignored.
Despite exhaustive efforts to collaborate with key players, our pleas were met with indifference. This outright dismissal erodes the fragile trust that underpins these negotiations and mocks the spirit of global solidarity.
The bulldozed New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) is a glaring symbol of this failure:
Ambition is absent – The NCQG falls woefully short of addressing the climate emergency’s scale and urgency.
The most vulnerable excluded – It ignores the needs of LDCs and SIDS, offering no minimum allocation for our groups.
Loss and Damage dismissed – The plan lacks meaningful support, leaving our communities to suffer without recourse.
Access denied – Weak and vague commitments fail to improve access to climate finance for the most vulnerable.
Undefined Climate Finance – A lack of clear definitions undermines transparency, leaving the door open for manipulation and inaction.
Established mechanisms sidelined: There are no guarantees of finance flowing through trusted entities under the Convention and Paris Agreement.
This outcome is a travesty. It sacrifices the needs of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable to protect the narrow interests of those who created this crisis. It prioritises profits and convenience over survival and justice.
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Notes to the editor:
The Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group is made up of 45 countries across Africa, the Asia-Pacific and the Caribbean, with a joint population of over one billion people. Incredibly vulnerable to environmental and economic shocks, and disproportionately affected by the climate crisis, our countries negotiate together as a bloc at UN climate talks to advance our shared interest in a fair and ambitious global response to climate change.
Evans Njewa is the current Chair of the Least Developed Countries Group, and the Head of Climate Change and UNFCCC Focal Point for the Government of Malawi.
Baku, Azerbaijan – The UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) has ended with a bare minimum agreement on a new public climate finance goal of $300 billion USD.
Jasper Inventor, Head of COP29 Greenpeace Delegation said: “The agreed finance goal is woefully inadequate and overshadowed by the level of despair and scale of action needed. The best and worst of multilateralism saw isolated blockers and difficult talks stymie change before a deal was brokered at the death knell.”
“Our true opponents are the fossil fuel merchants of despair and reckless nature destroyers who hide snugly behind every government’s low climate ambition. Their lobbyists must be disallowed and leaders need to summon the courage to get on the right side of history.”
“People are fed up, disillusioned, but we’ll persist and resist because this is a fight for our future! We will not give up. As we look to COP30 in Belem, we must hold on to hope – hope that is firmly anchored on people demanding climate ambition.”
On the new climate finance goal, Tracy Carty, Climate Politics Expert, Greenpeace International added: “Bitter disappointment. $300 billion USD by 2035 is way too little, way too late. Developed countries came here with empty pockets and shamefully squeezed developing countries to agree. But this finance goal comes with no assurance that it will not be delivered through loans or private finance rather than the grant-based public finance developing countries desperately need.
“If developed countries are worried about what they can afford, let’s not forget the billions of dollars in profits the polluting oil and gas companies make and send them the bill. The fossil fuel industry has been spared any responsibility to pay and will be laughing all the way to the bank. One glimmer of hope is an agreement to develop a roadmap by COP30 for scaling up finance: this must be a roadmap for making polluters pay.”
On the mitigation, Maarten de Zeeuw, Climate and Energy Campaigner, Greenpeace Netherlands said: “The elephant in the room is the fossil fuel producers blocking progress. It’s alarming how progress on mitigation stagnated, but in spite of the fossil fuel lobbyists prowling the halls we’ve prevented rollbacks on the COP28 decision to transition away from fossil fuels.
“Yet, amid the worsening tropical cyclones, record wildfires, an historical drought and unprecedented ocean warming, the global climate movement is more determined than ever. Our future is on the line! Next year’s deadline of 2035 climate action plans must serve as the turning point in our climate fight to deliver a hopeful Paris Agreement anniversary.”
In response to the agreement on Article 6, An Lambrechts, Biodiversity Politics Expert, Greenpeace International said: “The carbon market mechanism agreed at COP29 is not a climate finance solution and will only provide a lifeline to the polluting fossil fuel industry, allowing it to offset emissions.
“This mechanism is a climate scam and polluters should be made to pay to clean up the mess they’ve caused, but instead they’re winning a get out of jail free card. Baku is infamously now an offsets COP, delivering carbon markets with gaping loopholes and a glaring lack of integrity.
“But all is not lost. We see momentum on aligning global climate and biodiversity action and in building bridges between the two. At COP30 in Belem, in the Amazon, it’s time to connect the climate and biodiversity fights together.”
Zhe Yao, Global Policy Adviser, Greenpeace East Asia said: “China’s decision matters. COP29 has shown a clear need for climate leadership, but the trillion-dollar question is how determined China is to turn its strengths on clean technology into leadership?
“Between now and Belem, China has the potential to reinvigorate the multilateral process by presenting a strong NDC and outlining its plans to transition away from fossil fuels. This NDC can provide a leading light and take up the climate fight.”
Raíssa Ferreira, Campaign Director, Greenpeace Brazil said: “It was essential to get an agreement on climate finance here to raise ambition and to set the stage ahead of COP30. We call on President Lula to take the baton, forge improved synergies between climate and biodiversity and display true global climate leadership. We will persist in our demands.”
Fred Njehu, Pan-African Political Strategist, Greenpeace Africa stated: “How generous of the Global North to acknowledge our $1.3 trillion USD need while offering a pipette to fill an ocean? It’s like agreeing someone needs a full reservoir of water to survive, then handing them an eye dropper and saying, ‘Good luck!’
“This finance deal not only betrays climate justice but makes a mockery of the polluter pays principle. The same nations who built their wealth on fossil fuels now offer band-aids while expecting us to bear the trillion-dollar burden of their historical emissions.
“This isn’t climate finance – it’s climate colonialism. But Africa’s spirit remains unbroken. We will carry our demands for climate justice to Belem, insisting that polluters finally pay their fair share for the destruction they’ve caused.”
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Nairobi, November 25, 2024: As we absorb the outcome of the all-stakes COP29, dubbed the “finance COP”, it is reverberating across mountains, valleys, oceans, rivers, and all over the world that, once again, rich countries have their way – delaying action, and escaping their duty to pay what is due to the victims of their actions.
The USD 300 billion Goal falls far short of the USD 1.3 trillion the African and developing countries were pushing for to address the gap in adaptation needs and climate funding for vulnerable people.
Woefully, the money will come in many forms and sources, defeating the spirit of the principles of the Climate Change Convention and the Paris Agreement that calls for the provision of public finance by developed countries. Clearly, developing countries are poised to sink deeper into debt as climate becomes a new source of debt as they grapple with rising development demands. Moreso, the deal does not inspire hope for less developed countries who have suffered unjustly low access to climate finance due to their constrained fiscal space.
And the problems for Africa do not end in the size of commitment. Article 6 has been messed up to centre the carbon market in the mobilisation of climate finance. This is a bold departure from the Paris Agreement, centring carbon market in climate finance as opposed to their contribution to reducing emissions, a role this market has played with dismal performance with peaking emissions and violations of human rights.
No free lunch was what then Africa was pushed to, technically being pushed to clean the pollution mess of developed countries to access the much-desired climate finance. A COP where justice, equity, reparations, and responding to the needs of climate-vulnerable people ruled the airwaves, this was a stab at the back. Unfortunately, the decision on the carbon market was lauded in the COP29 Presidency closing speech as a breakthrough – a height of hypocrisy.
For PACJA, Baku remains one of the worst deals in the history of COPs. In the coming days we will be making an extensive analysis on Baku, and provide the way forward to our members, partners and other stakeholders.
The Australian Council for International Development (ACFID), the peak body for Australian NGOs delivering climate programming overseas, is disappointed at the lack of a fair and ambitious New Collective Quantified Goal on climate finance (NCQG).
COP29 has ended with a deal for developed countries to collectively raise $300bn per year for developing countries to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
“Developing countries have understandably left COP29 bitterly disappointed with the inadequacy of the new climate finance goal. Experts have estimated that climate finance needs are in the trillions, yet this new global goal will raise only a sliver of what is needed to avert dangerous climate impacts worldwide,” said Dr Alex Edney-Browne, ACFID’s Policy & Government Relations Lead.
This goal is an increase on previous global commitments, but it falls well short of the trillions experts have estimated are needed to ensure developing countries can meet their mitigation targets and adapt to climate impacts already observed and projected before 2040.
Developing nations have expressed serious concern and dismay at the outcome of COP29. The growing burden of climate change on developing economies has made equitable access to climate finance more important than ever for low-income countries struggling to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
“Developed countries have again failed to take responsibility for their historic and ongoing contributions to the climate crisis, with developing countries forced to take on more debt to deal with a crisis they did not cause,” said Dr Edney-Browne.
“Climate finance is not a nice-to-have. It’s essential for developing countries to afford crucial climate mitigation and adaptation activities, to keep warming within safe limits and adapt to impacts such as extreme heat, flooding, fires and cyclones.
Loss and damage was not included in the new climate finance goal, meaning that there is no obligation on developed countries to contribute much needed loss and damage funds.
“ACFID welcomes the Australian Government’s pledge of $50m to the global loss and damage fund. We will now look to the Government to demonstrate leadership under the new global climate finance goal. This means providing our fair share of high quality and grants-based climate finance to the $300bn goal,” said Dr Edney-Browne.
No minimum targets were included in the goal for least developed countries and small island developing countries. This means that the world’s most climate vulnerable communities will continue to experience difficulties in accessing climate finance, especially in the Pacific.
Overall COP29 outcomes are fundamentally underwhelming and will leave developing countries worse off under projected climate impacts.
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Baku, Azerbaijan (24 November): The COP29 outcome risks setting back climate action at just the moment when accelerating it is most critical. After two weeks of tense and polarised negotiations, countries agreed a climate finance deal that does not come close to meeting the needs of developing countries. Additionally, this COP failed to send a strong signal on the need to rapidly reduce emissions and phase out fossil fuels.
Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, WWF Global Climate and Energy Lead, and former environment minister and COP20 President, said: “The world has been let down by this weak climate finance deal. At this pivotal moment for the planet, this failure threatens to set back global efforts to tackle the climate crisis. And it risks leaving vulnerable communities exposed to an onslaught of escalating climate catastrophes. This is a serious blow to climate action, but it must not stall the solutions that are desperately needed around the world.
“The science remains the same - we must accelerate action in this decade to prevent climate change spiralling out of control. All national and corporate leaders have a responsibility to step up, go beyond the parameters of this deal, and deliver sufficient levels of finance to deliver the transformational changes needed. This bad deal must not hold us back. We need to invest in our collective future.
“WWF will keep working to help make sure this multilateral process, that has proved its resilience before, is strengthened and can deliver the results the world needs.”
Just this week, the G20 leaders reaffirmed the need to rapidly and substantially scale up climate finance from billions to trillions. The commitment of US$300 billion a year by 2035 falls far short of this ambition, will come too far in the future, and is not in line with what is needed to support vital climate action in developing countries.
At the last minute, a roadmap to scale up finance towards $1.3 trillion for developing countries was added to the text, but this gives little reason to be confident that this level of finance will be delivered. The incoming Brazilian presidency will need engagement from all parties to manage this roadmap process towards a meaningful outcome by COP30 in Belem to ensure substantial amounts of finance are mobilised.
Fernanda Carvalho, WWF Global Climate and Energy Policy Lead, said: “In the year countries are deciding their new national climate plans, it is unacceptable for COP29 to not send a strong message on the need to cut emissions and phase out fossil fuels, backed up by adequate finance. Countries must not let this awful outcome detract from the urgent need to ramp up their emission reduction targets, press ahead with the energy transition and adapt to the consequences of rising temperatures. Unless developed countries go well beyond this finance target, making the $1.3 trillion Baku to Belém roadmap tangible, vulnerable communities will be increasingly exposed to devastating climate impacts and the window to limit global warming to 1.5oC will close.”
Vanessa Morales, WWF Senior Expert, Climate and Nature said: “Despite climate and nature being inextricably linked, negotiations sent weak signals about the need to accelerate action on both in parallel. Nature featured strongly in side-events and peripheral initiatives, but without a home in the formal negotiations, we risk this crucial element of climate action being sidelined. Climate and nature must go hand in hand if we are to secure a living planet for future generations.”
BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 23, 2024 —The 29th UN Climate Conference (COP29) concluded today, with an atrociously inadequate new climate finance goal of $300 billion, after wealthy nations refused to pay up in line with their legal obligations to provide sufficient climate finance to the Global South—say experts at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL). COP29 delivered a watered-down outcome on financial commitments, and ignored the call for climate accountability, marking yet another missed opportunity for decisive action on the climate crisis.
Developing countries had demanded at least 1.3 trillion per year in climate finance for mitigation, adaptation, and loss and damage—just a fraction of what is spent each year by rich countries on fossil fuel subsidies and war.
Wealthy countries failed to meet their legal obligations to provide their share in debt-free public finance, phase out fossil fuels without dangerous loopholes or distractions like carbon markets, and uphold human rights and civic space.
“COP29 was a dumpster fire. Except it’s not trash that’s burning— it’s our planet. And developed countries are holding both the matches and the firehose. Their refusal to pay up for climate action and harm, or to phase out fossil fuels, in line with their legal obligations, denies Global South countries their due and puts a livable future at risk,” said Nikki Reisch, CIEL’s Director of Climate & Energy Program. “Big polluters are to blame for this insulting outcome. For decades, they have diluted their legal obligations and blocked climate negotiations from tackling the climate crisis with the urgency, ambition, and equity needed. By allowing carbon removal offsets into the climate regime and fossil fuel lobbyists into these negotiations, they’ve blown loopholes through ambition and let the fox into the henhouse. The same rich countries that will not pony up resources to ensure a global transition away from fossil fuels are propping up the fossil fuel industry with trillions of dollars in subsidies and investments in new projects.”
Reisch highlighted that “By shirking their legal duties, big polluters sought to make the Paris Agreement go up in smoke. Accountability for the climate crisis will not end with the weak agreement reached at COP29. Civil society movements will keep demanding justice, and polluters will continue to be held accountable in courtrooms and the court of public opinion around the world. The climate hearings at the International Court of Justice in December offer a chance to clarify states’ legal obligations under international law. That clarity may prove a powerful antidote to the political inertia and lowest common denominator outcomes on full display in Baku,”
Other legal, climate, and human rights experts from the Center for International Environmental Law noted that COP29 yielded little progress on finance, fossil fuel phaseout, or safeguarding human rights in climate action. After bulldozing the final obstacles to a UNFCCC-sanctioned carbon market on the first day, COP29 ended with the adoption of rules that lacked any checks on carbon offsets that don’t deliver emissions impacts or violate rights.
“Paying to pollute will never be a climate solution, and carbon markets will never be climate finance. Creating a Paris-sanctioned carbon market that could be more dangerous than the scandal-ridden voluntary carbon markets, is not a win for people or the planet. It’s a win for big polluters and carbon cowboys. And it does not make up for failing to provide public finance. Agreeing to weak rules that lack transparency, accountability, or meaningful oversight is not a cooperative approach for achieving more ambitious climate action, but a recipe for disaster,” said Erika Lennon, CIEL Senior Attorney. “With the gavelling of standards on methodologies and removals, the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism has flung open its doors to removal activities that are nothing more than a dangerous distraction. Going forward it is essential to ensure this mechanism enforces its standards and properly ensures that other relevant international environmental agreements – including those that place a moratorium on geoengineering – apply to activities.”
Moving forward with operationalizing carbon markets provides an escape hatch for polluters to continue failing to phase out. Paying to pollute will never be a climate solution, and carbon markets will never be climate finance, but shift the burden to those least responsible for the climate crisis.
“We’ve witnessed a huge lobbying effort at this year’s climate talks from companies promoting speculative and unreliable carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology as a climate solution. But CCS has repeatedly failed to deliver. Instead it serves only to create loopholes and justifications to allow polluters to keep on polluting,” said Rachel Kennerley, CIEL Carbon Capture Global Campaigner, said. “With 480 CCS lobbyists at COP29, it is clear the fossil fuel industry is investing heavily in selling CCS to secure their future despite the need for climate action. Unfortunately, countries seem to be buying into the pipe dream. The COP29 outcome wedges open windows for this proven to fail technology and other false solutions like carbon markets, gas, and hydrogen. Carbon Capture and Storage is siphoning away energy and money from the real climate action we need.”
The agreed deal falls far short of what is needed to ensure a rapid and equitable global phaseout of fossil fuels, adaptation to a changing climate, or protection of the rights of those least responsible for but most harmed by mounting climate impacts.
“The climate finance outcome shoved down climate-vulnerable countries’ throats at COP29 is the definition of a bad deal. The new climate finance goal of $300 billion is a drop in the ocean of the massive and growing needs, effectively denying any form of justice for those on the frontlines of the climate crisis and pushing developing countries deeper into debt. Without a real commitment to providing grants-based finance and riddled with loopholes to avoid any obligation to pay, this agreement is yet another demonstration of wealthy countries’ continued attempts to undermine the UN climate agreements and escape long-standing obligations under international law,” said Lien Vandamme, CIEL Senior Campaigner Human Rights and Climate Change. The exclusion of loss and damage from the climate finance goal is outrageous. It denies major historical polluters’ obligations to remedy the massive harm that the climate crisis is causing, and the removal of all references to human rights from the finance goal is another indication that the climate negotiations are evolving in isolation from existing legal norms. A climate finance goal—especially one encompassing private finance—without human rights safeguards will compound harms to communities and ecosystems. The International Court of Justice’s upcoming clarification of the legal obligations of States in the context of climate change could not be more timely and urgent.”
The negotiations, held in a country with a track record of human rights violations and with significant restrictions on civic space, saw significant backsliding on human rights, reflective of the broader political climate in many countries this year.
“The climate emergency demands bold action fueled by public participation and accountability, yet COP29 fell far short of both these standards. Hosted in Azerbaijan, where dissent was crushed through arrests of civil society members and journalists ahead of the conference, the COP29 mirrored the host country’s disdain for basic rights,” said Sébastien Duyck, CIEL Senior Attorney and Human Rights and Climate Change Manager. “The UN compounded the problem by curtailing speech within the conference, even as fossil fuel lobbyists thrived, working to dilute climate commitments. If future COPs are to matter, States and the UN must reject corporate interference and fiercely protect the civic spaces needed to drive urgent climate action.”
Camilla Pollera, Human Rights and Climate Change Program Associate noted that “COP29’s failure to prioritize gender justice is yet another demonstration of the wrong turn taken in Baku. Despite the critical need for ambitious gender-just climate outcomes, negotiations faced persistent pushbacks against anything that could strengthen the Lima Work Programme on Gender, culminating in a weak outcome. Women – in all their diversity – on the frontlines and standing up for environmental rights are facing unique threats, as they challenge the exploitation of land and natural resources while confronting entrenched gender discrimination. The final decision is a missed opportunity to ensure comprehensive protection and support for women environmental human rights defenders. The absence of a political commitment at the COP to protect their fundamental rights further marginalizes their voices and weakens the pursuit of just and effective climate action. Now, the new Gender Action Plan must fill this gap. ”
BAKU, Azerbaijan (Nov. 23, 2024) – Today, Conservation International's Chief Strategy Officer Patricia Zurita issued the following statement following the conclusion of the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, known as COP29. COP29 culminated in the new Baku Climate Unity Package on Saturday.
Zurita said:
"Amid questions about leadership, diplomatic squabbles, and rebukes of the COP system, nearly 200 countries signed on to the Baku Climate Unity Package, which includes a new climate finance goal. While imperfect progress is still progress, we need to see more ambition and speed to keep 1.5C alive.
“While countries averted outright disaster, COP29 failed in meaningful ways. Most notably, the $1.3 trillion per year goal by 2035 falls short. It is simply not enough in speed or scale. Nor is the $300 billion promised from developed to developing countries.
“In addition, leaders failed to reinforce the importance of phasing out fossil fuels, something every country committed to take steps at COP28 and continued a troubling neglect for nature and its correlation with climate stability. Ignoring nature’s foundational role as a climate solution defies comprehension; even if we miraculously halted all fossil fuels tomorrow, scientists agree that we would fly past our climate goals without also protecting nature. We will continue to shout this message from the rooftops until leaders take seriously the rapid action it demands.
"But there are still reasons to feel optimistic. In the conference’s most encouraging breakthrough, countries cemented much-needed consensus on outstanding elements of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. After years of red tape, country-to-country emissions trading can now move forward with more clarity on common procedures, reporting requirements and high integrity. UN-centralized trading is closer to full operation, with remaining topics to be tabled for discussions throughout 2025. We are heartened that Article 6 also now recognizes the value of Indigenous knowledge and practices which will further ensure that these funds help conserve our most carbon-rich forests and bring livelihood opportunities to local communities around the world.
“Dissecting the outcome is important, but the words on paper are not our only concern. We also leave Baku troubled by the lack of inclusion and transparency during the COP process, developing countries must not be excluded from key conversations. Too often, the voices of small-island states and other developing countries were sidelined. As a result, countries facing the most extreme consequences of climate change today, those least responsible for its creation, are hearing a dire message: their existence is negotiable.
“Though nihilism is tempting, countries cannot abandon multilateral climate diplomacy; the stakes are too high. As the world looks to COP30 in Brazil next year, leaders must recommit to the level of compromise and commitment that led to the Paris Agreement and has enabled progress since then. Humanity’s future hangs in the balance; we have no choice but to figure this out. And we have no choice but to do it together.”
While the agreement reached at COP29 avoids immediate failure, it is far from a success. On the key issues like climate finance and the transition away from fossil fuels, this is — yet again — the bare minimum.
We cannot continue to rely on last-minute half measures. Leaders today shirk their responsibility by focusing on long-term, aspirational goals that extend far beyond their own terms in office. To meet the challenge of our time, we need real action at the scale of months and years, not decades and quarter-centuries.
This experience in Baku illuminates deeper flaws in the COP process, including the outsized influence of fossil fuel interests that has hobbled this process since its inception. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been particularly obstructive. Putting the future of humanity at severe risk in order to make more money is truly disgraceful behavior. Reforming this process so that the polluters are not in effective control must be a priority.
On climate finance, our primary task in the coming years must be to not only fulfill and build upon the financial commitments agreed to at COP29, but to unleash even larger flows of affordable and fair private capital for developing countries.
Ultimately, coming out of COP29, we must transform disappointment into determination. We can solve the climate crisis. Whether we do so in time to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement will depend on what comes next.
BAKU, AZERBAIJAN. ACT Alliance expresses its profound disappointment with the outcome of COP 29 and the failure to secure even the minimum asks of the poorest and most vulnerable countries. This result is an indication of weak leadership from the COP29 Presidency, which has fallen short of its responsibility to deliver meaningful progress. After three years of negotiations on the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG), the heart of the finance commitments for this so-called “Finance COP,” this outcome is starkly inadequate. The lack of ambition and inadequate support for those most affected by the climate crisis undermine trust in the process and stall the urgent action needed to address the escalating global emergency
“COP29 has proved to be a colossal disappointment,” said Sostina Takure, coordinator of the ACT Zimbabwe Forum. “The failure to address the demands of the most vulnerable countries is evident across all tracks. There was a very clear regression in terms of ambitious language especially in the gender text. We have failed the women and girls who suffer the consequences of climate change and were pinning their hopes on this process. There is no effective participation of the poor and vulnerable countries without strong fianncial commitments directly towards them.”
“The lack of real progress during the COP at a time when the planet feels fragile in so many ways signals lack of real care about the issues and the people experiencing the effects of climate damage,” said Alethia White, Regional Liaison for Northern and Central Europe with the Presbyterian Church USA. “At the same time, any agreement is welcome and my respect goes to those governments and negotiators who show up, who stick with it, and who choose to look past disagreements and sit at the same table when it is difficult to do so. I heard a sentiment expressed during my time at the COP that if we stay in our comfort zone change will not happen. We need to collectively work outside of our comfort zones for the good of all.”
ACT comments on the key aspects of the negotiations:
Finance
The long-awaited moment to agree on the New Collective Quantified Goal came at the wee hour, amidst great concerns and worries of a potentially failing COP 29. It’s now decided. But the set mobilisation quantum of USD 300B by developed countries is not anywhere close to what is needed to bridge the financing gap. The road ahead seems bleak but hope exists. We must at all cost keep equity and fairness at the heart of financing climate change mitigation, adaptation and loss and damage response, and implementing the agreed decision.
“The COP29 agreement represents a small step forward, but it falls frustratingly short of addressing the immense and urgent needs we are witnessing across our partners and country offices in the Global South,” said Mattias Söderberg, Global Climate Lead, DanChurchAid and co-chair of the ACT Alliance climate justice reference group.
“We condemn the lack of a meaningful outcome on climate finance at COP29. After three years of negotiations, vulnerable nations are still left without the support they desperately need. This failure to deliver is a betrayal of climate justice and global solidarity,” said Illari Aragon, Climate Justice Policy Lead, Christian Aid.
“Developed countries have been shamefully unwilling to listen to the science and commit to a needs-based climate finance goal,” continued Matilde Angeltveit, climate policy advisor in Norwegian Church Aid. “Throughout three years of negotiations they have refused to talk openly about what they are willing to provide, jeopardising the Paris agreement to avoid taking responsibility and paying their fair share. Rich countries cant compromise with science, they need to provide at least 1T in grants based climate finance to developing countries annually.”
Adaptation
While COP29 failed to advance guidance on National Adaptation Plans, ACT does acknowledge that the negotiations to set up a robust framework for evaluating progress on global goals on adaptation (GGA) was a rare success in Baku.The GGA guides towards developing a buffet of 100 global and local indicators from which parties can choose those suiting best their national circumstances. The refining of indicators is guided by important human rights-based principles, principles that are both locally-led and inclusive.
“The set of indicators is also geared to monitoring the substantial gap between adaptation finance and needed action. We need to hold those mobilising finances accountable to strike a balance between mitigation and adaptation, and furthermore, to abide by the decision to dramatically scale up adaptation finances,” said leading advocacy specialist from Felm, Niko Humalisto.
Andrew Fuys said, “Developed countries’ failure to fund climate action at the scale that science requires will only increase the risks of climate-induced displacement. Greater inclusion of refugees and migrants in adaptation efforts, while welcome, is meaningless without the funds needed to bring those very efforts to life.”
Mitigation
COP29 produced minimal progress on mitigation, pushing this topic towards Brazil at COP30, but this lack of progress in Baku further endangers humanity’s ability to limit global temperature rise to 1.5C. “The outcome of COP29 does not match the ambition required for the next generation of NDCs,” said, Elena Cedillo, co-chair of ACT Alliance’s climate justice reference group and Program Executive for Climate Justice with the Lutheran World Federation. “Without 1.5°C-aligned commitments from countries, the opportunity to secure the 1.5°C goal will be lost. Tracking commitments is essential to ensure accountability and translate ambition into real and effective action.”
Loss and Damage
The issue of losses and damages caused by climate change wasn’t addressed, only acknowledged in the NCQG. Both economic and non-economic losses have a profound impact on human rights, are a precursor for additional inequities and a source of deep concern for communities worldwide.
Indigenous and vulnerable communities, including marginalised groups and individuals dependent on their natural resources and livelihood options are among the hardest hit, suffering devastating losses of livelihoods, cultural identity, heritage and practices and in many cases are forced to relocate by climate induced hazards. These are not just measurable losses and damages – they are irreplaceable. COP29 failed to deliver the necessary solutions to truly avert, minimise and address the needs of climate vulnerable communities.
“I am infuriated to come home to the aftermath of six typhoons that have struck the Philippines in the space of just four weeks with basically zero gains from COP29,” said Patricia Mungcal, humanitarian manager with the National Council of Churches in the Philippines. “I will be telling thousands of Filipino families who were devastated by these strong typhoons that world leaders have left us to suffer the heaviest impacts of the climate crisis and disregarded our demands for finance and reparations. This failure to address loss and damage is a grave disregard of our human dignity and rights. We charge this failure of COP29 to the moral bankruptcy of the rich, polluting nations.”
Katherine Braun, Ecumenical Centre of ELNG and ACT Alliance Reference Group on Migration and Displacement, continued, “The lack of political will for a human rights and gender responsive approach leaves migrants, refugees and displaced people in extreme situations of vulnerability and exposed to human rights violations. The economic and non-economic losses and damages are huge. The Loss and Damage Fund launched at COP28 was a good step forward to respond to the urgents needs of displaced communities and persons, but without meaningful financing they are once again left behind.”
Gender
“Considering the fact that inequality is exposing women and girls in diversity, indigenous groups, minorities, and disabled people to higher climate vulnerability, our expectation was a more ambitious and prescriptive gender programme document,” said Margareta Koltai from Act Church of Sweden. “Instead of getting to the next level, we had to defend earlier language to avoid an even more watered down version. It is clear that there is a gender pushback. There are actors, including faith actors, defending patriarchal values and blocking texts with more intersectional and rights based language. This has made it evident that the ecumenical movement has a very important role to play in defending gender equality and pushing for a better gender balance at the decision making tables. We must make sure that more than 50% of the world’s population are not left behind in climate decisions.” (Margareta Koltai, Act Church of Sweden)
“As a young woman, I urge a strong and unwavering commitment to the new Gender Action Plan, with meaningful action across its five priority areas: gender capacity, gender balance, gender coherence, gender-responsive implementation, and transparent gender monitoring. It is vital that the new generation of the NDCs and NAPs integrate and uphold these essential components of the GAP,” said Carine Josiéle Wendland – LWF delegate and member of the Evangelical Church of Lutheran Confession in Brazil
Youth
“Youth of faith have had enough empty words. Our insistence that a better world is possible is not a naive dream, it’s a deep spiritual conviction. As youth, our leadership is essential in this movement, we are the ones on the ground leading projects addressing climate change in our communities around the world, but the world won’t be able to achieve Climate Justice until young people are also fully included in climate negotiations, and our stories and perspectives are taken seriously,” Savanna Sullivan from the Lutheran World Federation stated.
“It is painful to see that global political will remains lacking. As a young person from a developing country, I urge the major emitting nations to listen, take decisive action, and assume responsibility for the well-being of our common home,” said Romario Dohmann, LWF Delegate and member of the Evangelical Church of the River Plate/ ACT LAC regional forum.
Hope for the future
“Between now and the next COP there must be a patient,careful strategy to nurture trust and friendship between participants.God gives us all we need to care for all planetary life,” said Bishop Philip Huggins, of the Anglican Church in Australia. “We just need to better apply our shared learnings on making relationships that are truly wonderful.”
White from the Presbyterian Church, USA agreed. “While it feels hard to feel hopeful after such a difficult COP experience, there must be hope in order for there to be meaningful progress, whether that is on a geopolitical level, international sphere, or within local communities.”
"Let’s be clear. Jobs, homes and lives will be lost to climate change impacts that could have been saved had the world’s wealthiest countries taken this finance COP seriously.
"Instead those wealthy countries have kowtowed to the fossil fuel interests of just a handful of countries, and put their own consumption desires above the wellbeing of billions of people in Africa, Asia, South America and the Caribbean.
"People living on the front lines of a crisis they had little hand in creating.
"The developed nations are responsible for the emissions causing climate change, as well as much of the overconsumption driving the destruction of nature. A fair outcome from COP29 would have recognised this with significantly more climate finance and grants than what eventually made it into the New Collective Quantified Goal.
"There are lots of vague words and spurious language which leaves huge space for creative accounting. And when combined with no precise targets for grant money for the most vulnerable countries, it feels like a recipe for stonewalling on the part of the rich emitters and a pathway to devastation for the most exposed communities."
World Animal Protection today issued a stark warning following the conclusion of COP29, which saw the finance package under the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) fall disastrously short of the scale required to address the escalating climate crisis.
While the US$300 billion commitment marks progress on paper, it is a mere fraction of the US$1.3 trillion called for and which economists have identified as critical to mitigate the catastrophic impacts of climate change, safeguard vulnerable communities, protect wildlife and stop industrial scale animal suffering.
Kelly Dent, Director of External Engagement for World Animal Protection, who attended the summit in Azerbaijan, said:
COP29 will be remembered as the ‘great finance escape.’ After two weeks of contentious negotiations riddled with delay tactics and watered-down ambition, developed nations have once again shirked their responsibilities, offering little more than a token gesture while the planet burns and millions of humans and animals suffer.
This wasn’t just about keeping 1.5°C alive—it was also about justice for those who feed the world yet face abandonment, for ecosystems teetering on collapse, and for billions of animals suffering in the profit-driven, climate-wrecking machine of industrial farming.
Instead, we’ve been left with tokenism masquerading as solutions, while the biodiversity crisis accelerates, habitats are destroyed, animals suffer and entire communities are left defenceless against the escalating impacts of climate change.
A failure to address the root cause - industrial agriculture
The emissions from global food systems remain the single largest contributor to climate change, yet COP29 failed to address this critical sector adequately. Industrial agriculture—particularly factory farming— a root cause of climate changing, fuelling emissions, destroying habitats, deepening food insecurity and perpetuating animal cruelty on a staggering inhumane scale.
Dent emphasised the urgent need for transformative change. She added:
We cannot continue to prop up a system that drives climate collapse, biodiversity loss, and human suffering. Sustainable, humane and equitable agroecological practices must replace the destructive industrial agriculture model. These solutions not only address the climate crisis but also stop the suffering of billions of animals trapped in factory farms.
Big Ag's stranglehold on the climate debate
While the Harmoniya Climate Initiative launched at COP29 offers some hope, its potential is overshadowed by the outsized influence of industry lobbyists.
Dent called out the pervasive role of Big Agriculture in shaping false solutions. She said:
The voices of small-scale producers—the very people who hold the keys to sustainable food systems—are being drowned out by industry lobbyists protecting profits over the planet. The UNFCCC must act decisively to cut Big Ag’s influence if it hopes to salvage credibility ahead of COP30 in Belem.
A call for ambitious, strong leadership at future COPs
Despite the glaring failures of COP29, World Animal Protection is resolute in its mission to drive meaningful change.
Dent said:
Leaders have a stark choice: step up and deliver real action in the coming months or bear full responsibility for a planet undone. Belem will be a defining moment—the world is watching, and it demands courage, ambition and accountability.
World Animal Protection will continue to push for a just transition to food systems that prioritise human well-being, protect animals, and secure a sustainable future for all life on Earth.
The
stakes have never been higher. It’s time for leaders to act—or face the
devastating consequences of their inaction.
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LUTHERVILLE, Md. (Nov. 25, 2024) – Solutions from the Land’s COP29 delegation is back from the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, where, over the course of the 12-day conference, SfL representatives held four events and spoke at numerous government and partner forums.
Although the parties remain divided over loss and damage payment provisions, and while there was backtracking on previous commitments to transition away from fossil fuels, some progress was made in opening a path for carbon markets that could benefit farmers.
Despite the policy divides that continue to impede the attainment of global greenhouse gas emission reduction goals, our proactive interventions helped reorient much of the narrative about agriculture, successfully positioning farms, ranches and woodlands as important and underutilized solution pathways for meeting the co-joined challenges of climate change, food insecurity and biodiversity loss.
We were also pleased that SfL’s core messages were amplified by other farm and value chain partner organizations that participated in the conference: 1) Farmers must be at the center of discussions and decisions; 2) Countries must enable outcomes, not prescribe practices; and 3) Profitability is the key to unlocking solutions from the land.
We look forward to continuing to participate in future negotiations in the run-up to COP 30 next November in Belém, Brazil.
About Solutions from the Land
Solutions from the Land (SfL) is a 501c3 nonprofit focused on land-based solutions to global challenges. SfL builds and facilitates state, national and global initiatives and alliances through which farmers, ranchers, foresters and collaborating partners showcase examples of innovation and proactively advocate for policies, partnerships, investments and research that will enable agricultural landscapes to deliver near-term, cost-effective, integrated solutions to global mega-challenges: food and energy security; sustainable economic development; and environmental improvement. For more information, visit www.solutionsfromtheland.org.
The new deal on climate finance – agreed over the weekend at the annual UN Climate Change Conference, or COP29 – is staggeringly disappointing, falling well short of what is needed to tackle the climate crisis, according to global humanitarian and girls’ rights organisation Plan International Australia.
The new deal, the New Collective Quantified Goal on climate finance (the NCQG), is inadequate in volume – at only $300 billion by 2035, well short of the $1.3 trillion that Global South countries on the frontlines of the world’s worst and most frequent climate disasters have been calling for. It also does not include specific targets for funding support on adaptation and loss and damage.
The outcome is also a significant setback for progress on equity, with no concrete pathway to address the needs of those most affected by the climate crisis, including children, and especially girls who are impacted disproportionately.
This is a major missed opportunity to make sure that communities who are grappling with the crushing reality of climate change every day receive the critical, life-saving support that is their human right.
Communities around the Pacific region in particular are already facing the climate crisis head on and girls and young women are bearing the brunt, missing school, facing food insecurity and greater risk of gender-based violence. Their lives are being fundamentally and forever reshaped by climate change. Half of Pasifika girls surveyed in our recent research reported missing out on school due to climate events. More than a quarter of girls said they have less food and almost 20 per cent are going hungry due to the climate crisis. According to Oxfam Australia, the number of people affected by climate disasters in the Pacific has increased by 700% in the last decade.
“The outcome of the NCQG is devastating. Climate finance is not a luxury. It is a lifeline for communities facing the impact of the climate crisis. Girls face the worst of the climate crisis, and we cannot risk leaving them behind. We need climate finance to ensure intergenerational and gender justice. Unfortunately, this COP squandered hopes of achieving this,” said Kupakwashe Matangira, a Plan International Australia youth activist and delegate to COP29.
While the NCQG deal urges that climate finance efforts promote inclusion and benefits of vulnerable communities, including women, girls, children and youth, it falls egregiously short of incorporating gender and intergenerational justice principles. Plan International Australia is alarmed at the push back and erosion on gender equity that were reported across the negotiations at CO29. Increased attention and focus on human rights, and particularly gender and intergenerational justice, must be a feature of international climate action in the coming months and years.
While COP29 failed to meet the moment, the commitment and leadership demonstrated by young people remains a beacon of hope, showing that progress is still possible.
“It has been the young people on the ground at COP29 who have kept the fight for climate and gender justice alive. Our advocacy is unwavering; it is us who continue to challenge the structures and systems to provide hope for a fair and just future, keeping the fight for climate justice alive” said Tegan Clark, a Plan International Australia youth activist and delegate to COP29.
As we look ahead to COP30 in Brazil next year, it is clear that children and young people will continue to be central in driving the agenda forward.
“The passion, determination and commitment that young people, especially girls and young women, brought to COP29 is a sign of hope and optimism for the future even in the face of growing impacts of the climate crisis,” said Plan International Australia chief executive Susanne Legena.
“As the world prepares for COP30, it is essential that young people’s voices are at the forefront. Plan International will continue to advocate for stronger commitments to gender justice, equitable climate finance, and intergenerational solutions to the climate crisis. A strong outcome at COP30 could be a lifeline, and a failure would be another wasted opportunity, putting the lives of today and tomorrow’s children in grave danger,” she said.
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