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🗓️ 12 December 2024

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Summary

Every year, the United Nations holds its annual climate change conference. It’s called the “Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP).

This year, the 29th annual COP was held on Nov. 11 in the city of Baku, which is the capital of Azerbaijan.

However, unlike previous years, many challenges have arisen this year that pose serious problems to the U.N.’s climate agenda.

Whether it’s the reelection of Donald Trump (and his promise to exit the Paris Climate Accords), western world leaders skipping the conference, or the host nation giving a speech in favor of fossil fuels, it appears that the pendulum is beginning to swing in the other direction.

But the U.N. is not taking this lying down.

Instead, it has announced a new initiative, called the “The Baku Initiative on Human Development for Climate Resilience.”

Let’s go through what this latest initiative is, how it’s being implemented, the specific challenges it’ll face, and what it’ll mean going forward for the countries that are still committed to the U.N.’s climate agenda.

Join host Roman Balmakov on this week’s episode of “Facts Matter.”

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0:00.0	Every year, the UN holds their annual climate change conference.
0:04.5	It's called the Climate Change Conference of Parties, abbreviated as COP, COP.
0:10.5	This year, the 29th annual COP conference was held on November the 11th in the city of Baku,
0:16.6	which is the capital of Azerbaijan.
0:18.8	However, very likely, this might be the very first time that you're hearing about it,
0:22.6	because among several other reasons,
0:24.6	Trump's sweeping victory in the election is already beginning to have impact on global policies
0:30.6	throughout the whole world, including on the UN's climate policies.
0:34.6	In fact, it's not unfair to say that the entirety of this year's COP conference
0:39.2	was deflated following Trump's victory. That's because Trump went on record ahead of the election,
0:45.9	and then subsequently he reconfirmed that after the election that he will be pulling the U.S.
0:50.7	out of the Paris Climate Accords. Here's a short clip from the debate with Joe Biden
0:55.4	where Trump laid it out, and this happened back in June. Take a listen.
1:00.1	The Paris Accord was going to cost us a trillion dollars, and China nothing, and Russia nothing,
1:05.6	and India nothing. It was a rip-off of the United States, and I ended it because I didn't want to waste that money because they treat us horribly.
1:14.2	We were the only ones. It was costing us money. Nobody else was paying it to it.
1:17.8	And it was a disaster.
1:20.3	Now, to give you a brief refresher, because I'm sure if you're like me, you have already forgotten all the details,
1:27.3	but the rationale for pulling
1:29.0	the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Accords the first time, well, it had to do with the fact
1:33.5	that this particular agreement would essentially handcuff the U.S. while letting other countries
1:39.3	do whatever they want. And so if you look at a graph, even without the Paris Agreement, the U.S.
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