Thread by @althecat

It’s a gray day here at #COP29Azerbaijan as the 29th Meeting of Nations to address what is now a #ClimateCrisis enters extra time, day one. THREAD.

Civil Society is preparing for a big day in the COP29 venue till the Closing Plenary is convened most likely fairly late Saturday. Here are letters sent to the largest Developing block of COP Nations G77+ China and several developed world nations last night.

This came after new texts were released on the Core remaining issues in this Climate Summit:

Finance - specifically the NCQG - the draft text contained the first number placed on the table 250 Billion, which is not even an inflation adjusted upgrade on the 100 Billion a year in finance agreed in Copenhagen in 2009.

See: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhage…

The open letters to the developed and developing world from #COP29 Civil Society have been endorsed by a huge number of organisations globally.

And will underpin a day of action today at the COP29 Venue.

The number of attendees will drop massively now with only delegates, media and observers remaining. Meanwhile the food and coffee vendors have all packed up now as COP enters its final hours.

Following the very broad rejection of draft texts released shortly after midday yesterday on the final scheduled day of COP29, the incoming Azerbaijan Presidency has now commenced a series of meetings with cop constituency representatives to discuss a broad range of areas around which there is not yet any agreement

[Images of last nights trip home. Presidency shuttle buses from the venue have now ceased operation.]

There is a broader range of issues/texts yet to be completed, and under intense dispute at COP29 more than at the end of Cop27 in Sharm-el-Sheikh in Egypt in 2022.

That COP finally commenced its closing Plenary at 4am on Sunday morning. Hopefully it will not take as long here

But it’s worth Noting also that the last COP that ended on time was 20 odd years ago

Still outstanding:

1. FINANCE & NCQG (New Finance Goal replacing the 2009 100 Billion a year)
2. ADAPTATION (which is also finance related - but in an area- public infrastructures for climate change resilience - where it is very hard to get private investment )
3. The GLOBAL STOCK TAKE (an audit of of nation states’ efforts to reduce emissions
&
4. JUST TRANSITION (how to enable nation states to evolve and protect citizen and worker rights)

Comparisons are now being discussed among delegates with the very hotly contested COP held in Paris in 2015 at which the Paris Climate Agreement was agreed under which many of the Agenda Items currently in dispute were agreed by the @UNFCCC parties.

@UNFCCC /ends but coverage continuing….

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