It's Monday, November 25, 2024. I'm Albert Mueller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Well, it's over, at least for now, I'm talking about C.O.P. 29, the 29th Conference of the Parties under the organization known as the United

Nations, headlines are telling us that a final agreement was reached in this meeting in Baku,

Azerbaijan, just as the time was running out. And according to this final deal, the United Nations

has reached the agreement that richer nations

will pay $300 billion into a climate financing fund for developing nations and those most

endangered by climate change. And behind this is a massive story and just all kinds of

worldview issues. Matthew Dalton of the Wall Street Journal reported the story this way,

quote, the U.S., Europe, and a handful of other rich countries agreed to triple the financing they provide

for climate change projects in the developing world to at least $300 billion a year by 2035,

signaling their commitment to the Paris Climate Accord, despite a looming obstacle,

the incoming presidency of Donald Trump."

Now, at this point, I just want to say that it's politically convenient for everyone to say

that the big looming crisis for the United Nations Agreement, going all the way back to the Paris Accords of 2009, it's convenient

to say that the looming threat here is the President-elect of the United States, Donald Trump.

But actually, the looming threat could be spelled simply with one word, reality.

Donald Trump, in his first administration, took the United States out of the Paris Agreement.

You had President Biden then reinstate that agreement, but that doesn't solve the problem.

And as you look at the reality right now, it is very clear that what's really at stake here is global politics and global money.

And that's what it came down to at that meeting in Azerbaijan.

By the way, I state again, the meeting was held in Azerbaijan.

That is the former Soviet Republic that is one of the major oil-producing centers of the world.

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