COP29 talks go into overtime amidst wrangling
Newshour
BBC
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🗓️ 22 November 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Rich and developing countries alike have criticised the draft climate agreement at the COP29 summit in Azerbaijan, which has now gone into overtime as wrangling continues. Newshour hears from Johan Rockstrom, Director of the Postsdam Climate Institute.
Also in the programme: The disappearance of French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal; and sinkholes in China.
(Picture: The venue of the COP29 United Nations climate change conference, in Baku, Azerbaijan November 22, 2024. Credit: Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Newsar from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:07.2 | Coming to you live from our studios in central London. |
| 0:10.6 | I'm Julian Marshall. |
| 0:12.8 | Not for the first time. |
| 0:13.9 | A UN Climate Summit is overrunning. |
| 0:16.2 | COP 29 in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, should have ended earlier today, |
| 0:21.1 | but it's now set to go on into the night. |
| 0:24.9 | The delay is about the amount of money rich countries should give to developing nations |
| 0:29.3 | to help them combat global warming in a world that scientists say is on course to have its hottest year on record. |
| 0:38.1 | The draft Communicate proposes that wealthy nations provide $250 billion a year by 2035. |
| 0:45.6 | It's not enough. |
| 0:47.2 | So developing countries, the proposal is unacceptable. |
| 0:50.9 | And they were joined by protesters in Baku calling for rich countries to pay up. |
| 1:00.0 | Pay up for climate finance. Pay up. Pay up for climate finance. |
| 1:04.0 | And Mohamed Adau, director of the Climate Action Organization Power Shift Africa, |
| 1:09.1 | said that the proposal was an insult to developing |
| 1:12.1 | countries. |
| 1:13.5 | Our expectation was low, but this is a slap in the face. This is not something any developing |
| 1:19.0 | country will fall for. We needed an ambitious climate finance goal that meets the needs of |
| 1:24.2 | the developing country, and what they offer in us is a fifth of what developing countries have asked for. |
| 1:30.5 | Will we settle for a fifth of the ambition that developing countries can provide? |
| 1:34.1 | Of course not. |
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