News / Muddy waters at COP29 obscure climate consensus – progress elsewhere, though

© Rana Mirzayeva

That COP29’s week in Baku has turned into an embarrassment is impossible to ignore.

Delegates may have set out with the best of intentions for a productive negotiation on climate finance; but were unprepared for the deeply unserious culture-war morass into which they have been subsumed.

Some 1,773 coal, oil and gas lobbyists have been admitted to the summit. Argentina was the first to pull out of negotiations – unsurprising given that president Javier Milei has called climate change a “socialist lie” ...