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Global carbon emissions from fossil fuel combustion have reached an unprecedented peak in 2024, with the Global Carbon Project reporting a projected 37.4 billion tonnes of fossil CO2 emissions, a 0.8% increase from 2023. The report underscores an urgent call for emissions reduction as the world’s annual output of CO2 from fossil fuels and land-use […]
Albanian prime minister Edi Rama skewered the many leaders who skipped this year’s event. (AP pic) BAKU: Global leaders offered competing visions on how to tackle climate change at UN-led talks today as a new report warned that the world must reach carbon neutrality much sooner than planned. Planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions from oil, gas […]
The president of Azerbaijan, host of this year’s UN climate summit, lashed out at Western critics of his country’s oil and gas industry on Tuesday. In his keynote address at the Cop29 climate summit, where nearly 200 nations are negotiating global action on climate change, President Ilham Aliyev described his country as a victim of […]
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(Bakou) L’hôte de la conférence annuelle de l’ONU sur le climat, le président azerbaïdjanais Ilham Aliev, a défendu mardi le droit des pays à exploiter leur pétrole, en ouverture d’un sommet de dirigeants mondiaux marqué par l’absence des plus grandes puissances. Publié à 7 h 23 Mis à jour à 7 h 37 Delphine PAYSANT Agence France-Presse Les dirigeants […]
The agenda at the United Nations’ Cop29 climate summit has become more complicated with the re-election of Donald Trump, who made “Drill, baby, drill” an applause line on the campaign trail. The summit, which kicked off in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Monday, marks the first time in 15 years that global representatives will negotiate a new […]
PM Shehbaz Sharif waves hands before leaving for Baku, Azerbaijan on November 11, 2024. — Screengrab via YouTube@Geo News ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has landed in Baku, Azerbaijan, where he will attend a summit “World Leaders’ Climate Action Summit” as part of the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) to the United Nations Framework […]
And then, the main dilemma: Who has to take responsibility for what? The so-called global south is pressing for money to tread a path from developed countries to those left behind, who have not played a historical role in the climate crisis. The industrialized world, on the other hand, demands commitments on decarbonization from developing […]
The UN’s COP29 climate conference opened Monday in Azerbaijan under the specter of geopolitical conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine. Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin is leading the Russian delegation at the UN conference, expected to include nearly 50 representatives from Russian ministries of economic development, finance, agriculture and business, Interfax reported. Among Russia’s COP29 delegates […]
As the world reels from a year of record heat and looks all but certain to suffer another, delegates from nearly 200 countries have descended on Baku, Azerbaijan, for this year’s United Nations climate summit—known as COP29—which runs from Nov. 11 to Nov. 22. This summit’s primary focus is a contentious one: money. Developing nations […]