AFP, Europa Press and The Independent
La Jornada Newspaper
Monday, November 25, 2024, p. 10
Baku. Developing nations yesterday expressed their disappointment and criticized insult
the agreement reached at the COP29 in Baku, which stipulates that rich countries contribute 300 billion dollars annually to confront climate change, a figure that they considered insufficient.
This goal is not what we expected to achieve. After years of discussions, it is not ambitious for us
said Evans Njewa, Malawian diplomat and head of the least developed country bloc.
The agreed contribution It is an insult to the demand of developing countries
said Diego Pacheco, Bolivia’s chief negotiator; This feeling was joined by Ali Mohamed, at the head of the group of African countries, who said extremely disappointed
with an agreement too little, too late
.
German Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz acknowledged that the agreement reached at the last minute at the summit on climate change It’s not perfect but it helps us move forward.
with a global effort.
For his part, the outgoing US president, Joe Biden, stated that, although there was a substantial job
to do, the conference established a ambitious international climate finance goal
.
He added that While some may try to deny or delay the clean energy revolution underway in the United States and around the world, no one can reverse it, no one
.
Jasper Inventor, head of the Greenpeace delegation at COP29, said that our real opponents are the fossil fuel traders of desperation and the reckless destroyers of nature who hide comfortably behind the low climate ambition of every government
.
