(11 Nov 2024)
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Baku, Azerbaijan – 11 November 2024
1. Exterior of COP29 venue
2. Various of venue, security walking
3. Various of volunteers guiding attendees
4. Participants arriving
5. Various of attendees posing for photos in front of COP29 logo
6. Various of attendees inside venue
7. Pan left of venue
8. Close of COP29 logo
9. Attendee posing for photo
STORYLINE:
Delegates arrived Monday to attend the opening day of the United Nations climate negotiations in Baku, Azerbaijan.
But this year’s talks, known as COP29, won’t be as high-profile as last year’s, with 48 fewer heads of state scheduled to speak.
The leaders of the top two carbon polluting countries — China and the United States — will be absent.
Curbing and coping with climate change’s worsening heat, floods, droughts and storms will cost trillions of dollars and poor nations just don’t have it, numerous reports and experts calculate.
The floor in negotiations is the $100 billion a year that poor nations — based on a categorization made in the 1990s — now get as part of a 2009 agreement that was barely met.
Several experts and poorer nations say the need is $1 trillion a year or more.
Not only is dealing with money always a touchy subject, but two of the rich countries that are expected to donate money to poor nations – the US and Germany – are in the midst of dramatic government changes.
Even though the United States delegation will be from Biden Administration, the reelection of Donald Trump, who downplays climate change and dislikes foreign aid, makes US pledges unlikely to be fulfilled.
The overarching issue is climate finance.
Without it, experts say the world can’t get a handle on fighting warming, nor can most of the nations achieve their current carbon pollution-cutting goals or the new ones they will submit next year.
AP Video shot by Ahmed Hatem
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