This
painting is a composite of pictures found on the internet. I’ve never been to
Baku (and won’t be going for COP29) but I got petty close in 2017 when I was in Tabriz, Iran,
an 8-hour drive away
The
next major international UNFCCC* event is the Climate Change Conference, COP29,
in Baku, Azerbaijan, starting in a few days on November 11.
At
the heart of this year’s negotiations is the post-2025 climate finance goal,
known as the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG). High-emitting, wealthy
Global North states, like Canada, owe a “climate debt” to Global South
countries, who have contributed the least to climate change yet are facing the
brunt of its impacts. Climate finance is essential to the energy transition.
*UNFCCC stands for United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The Convention has near universal membership (198 Parties) and is the parent treaty of the 2015 Paris Agreement.Ba
