(13 Nov 2024)
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Baku, Azerbaijan – 13 November 2024
1. Various of COP29 attendees heading to plenary hall to attend Leaders’ Summit of the Small Islands Developing States on Climate Change
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Baron Waqa, Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat:
"We are still pushing for the 1.5°C to be respected and to keep alive, because our people in the Pacific we truly depend on this for our survival, and the other thing is climate financing, it has to be more accessible. We need more resources into the Pacific region, and we ourselves are trying our best to access Green Climate Fund."
3. Security outside hall
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Baron Waqa, Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat:
"I don’t want to anticipate that happening, but I know that a lot of work has gone into the Paris Agreement and the United States will have a look at it. As you know, it’s a new administration, and we do respect that but at the end, everybody will keep a level mind."
5. Close-up on COP29 logo
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Souef Kamalidini, Consultant to the Government of Comoros in environmental matters and sustainable development:
"The main request is funding, it’s funding because of all the engagement that have been agreed before did not yet attend and to face all this problem, there is no many solution, money, we need money. So the main challenge is money"
7. COP venue
STORYLINE:
Members of small island nations emphasised Wednesday at the Cop29 in Baku the importance of climate financing and the implementation of the Paris Agreement.
Sea level rise is an urgent threat to small island nations, as well as extreme weather like hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones made more intense by greenhouse gases trapping heat in the atmosphere.
Negotiators at the summit are looking to hammer out a deal on how much money, and in what form, developed countries will pledge for adapting to climate change and transitioning to clean energy for developing nations.
"We are still pushing for the 1.5°C to be respected and kept alive, because our people in the Pacific we truly depend on this for our survival " said the Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat Baron Waqa.
He added "the other thing is climate financing, it has to be more accessible".
During the U.S. presidential campaign, president-elect Donald Trump said he would pull America from the Paris Agreement and increase drilling and oil production.
"I don’t want to anticipate that happening, but I know that a lot of work has gone into the Paris Agreement and the United States will have a look at it, as you know, it’s a new administration, and we do respect that but at the end, everybody will keep a level of mind" said Baron Waqa.
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