(21 Nov 2024)
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Baku, Azerbaijan – 21 November 2024
1. Mid of Ireland’s Environment Minister Eamon Ryan speaking to journalists inside COP29 venue
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Eamon Ryan, Ireland’s Environment Minister:
"What was presented today, particularly on the finance text is not balanced, does not reflect the imperative the real demand for action. I was at the High Level Ambition Coalition meeting yesterday. We came from North and South America, we came from Europe, we came from Asia, we came from Africa, we came from small islands and big, and we agreed we need ambition in every aspect. Yes, in finance. But if we don’t have ambition for mitigation, that would be of no avail. It will not protect our people and I think we can still get it here. I think it’s not impossible that we can get that balanced text, but that means we have to be ambitious about stopping the status quo, moving away from the status quo."
4. Close of sign reading (English) "In solidarity for a green world"
5. Top negotiator from Timor-Leste Adao Barbosa entering plenary hall
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Adao Barbosa, top negotiator from Timor-Leste:
"It’s not only AOSIS (Alliance of Small Island States), but all developing countries, we are quite unhappy because the text that we are having at the moment, it’s quite weak, I would say. So, we are still willing to discuss further this issue with our partners, that’s why we are at the plenary here."
7. Various of Germany’s Climate Envoy Jennifer Morgan outside plenary hall
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Jennifer Morgan, Germany’s Climate Envoy:
"This text are not at all what we need them to be, we would have expected much more from this presidency to be driving forward ambitious text. Instead, we have a text that tries to divide us on issues of finance, for example, although there are some areas on key issues for island nations and the least developed countries which are there. But there are some big poison pills in this text. And on mitigation, I mean, there is nothing there. I mean, in the midst of a climate crisis, when people are losing their homes around the world, how can we not have a much stronger text here on mitigation, we will come into this plenary strong because we are far away from what we need."
9. Various of delegations entering plenary hall
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Esa Ainuu, delegation member from Niue:
"What disappoints me is it out of the three COPs I have been to, we have new introductions into the agenda, but there’s no commitment on the pledges already, already there for many years. For us in the Pacific, this is critical for us. And we get so emotional when you talk because, you know, we live in the blue ocean. We can’t escape to the desert. We can escape somewhere else. This is reality for us. If finance is not bringing any positive, why are we coming to COP?"
11. Azerbaijani COP29 lead negotiator Yalchin Rafiyev entering plenary hall being approached by journalists ++UPSOUND: Yalchin Rafiyev (English) "COP president is waiting, afterwards"++
STORYLINE:
A new draft text released early Thursday which will form the basis of any deal reached at United Nations climate talks on money for developing countries to transition to clean energy and adapt to climate change left out a crucial sticking point: how much wealthy nations will pay.
Negotiators at the talks — known as COP29 — in Baku, Azerbaijan, are trying to close the gap between the $1.3 trillion the developing world says is needed in climate finance and the few hundred billion that negotiators say richer nations have been prepared to give.
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