COP29 president says UN program shows current policies would lead to global warming of 3C

Published November 11,2024

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COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev mentioned on Monday the UN’s environmental program exhibits that present insurance policies applied throughout the globe will lead to world warming of three levels Celsius.

“We must be totally honest. The UN Environment Program shows that current policies are leading us to 3 degrees Celsius of warming,” Babayev mentioned throughout an tackle on the opening session of the twenty ninth UN Climate Change Conference held within the Azerbaijani capital Baku.

Stressing that these temperatures would have “catastrophic” penalties for billions, Babayev mentioned they might threaten the existence of communities represented on the occasion.

He mentioned that humanity is on the “road to ruin” and that local weather change is already current, referring to the current floods in Spain that left greater than 220 folks useless, and wildfires in Australia.

“Whether you see them or not, people are suffering in the shadows. They are dying in the dark and they need more than compassion, more than prayers and paperwork. They are crying out for leadership and action,” Babayev mentioned.

“COP29 is the unmissable moment to chart a new path forward for everyone,” he mentioned, including that that they want “much more from all of you.”

Babayev went on to say that COP29 is a “moment of truth” for the Paris Agreement, indicating that no single nation or initiative can remedy this disaster.

“They (regions affected by global warming) are waiting for us to show leadership. And they cannot afford the cost of delay. So, let us enhance ambition and enable action. Let us move forward in solidarity for a green world. And let us go to work,” he added.

Since getting into into power in 1994, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change has served as the inspiration for world local weather negotiations, resulting in vital agreements just like the Kyoto Protocol in 1997 and the Paris Agreement in 2015.

Today, 198 events take part in annual conferences to evaluate progress and forge responses to the local weather disaster.

This 12 months’s convention within the Azerbaijani capital Baku guarantees a renewed emphasis on actionable commitments and progressive funding mechanisms to drive world progress.