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'We were ready to leave climate summit' - negotiator tells BBC (BBC, 2024-11-25)

https://bbc.com/news/articles/cpwrlkwz9x9o
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"The walkout happened when talks were over-running by 19 hours and was a moment of high drama in the fraught #COP29 talks in Baku, Azerbaijan, shocking observers.

"#AOSIS [= the Alliance of Small Island States] was accompanied by another block called the Least Developing Countries."

"[finance negotiator for the AOSIS] Mr Robertson said the walk-out was 'spontaneous', not planned. 'It was so quick and instinctive,' he said."

"'You're not hearing us', [E. Njewa, the chair of the Least Developed Group] said. Then he stood up. Everyone stood up with him and then we just left,"

"'As soon as we did that everyone was calling us - the COP presidency, developed counties, the chair of G77 [another powerful bloc of developing countries]...

"'It's really sad that it took us walking out to get that,' he said."

#LDCs #ClimateJustice

#COP28 dangled the prospect of #FossilFuelPhaseOut and then snatched it away.

Key text: https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/GST_2.pdf
Updates: https://www.carbonbrief.org/interactive-tracking-negotiating-texts-at-cop28-climate-summit/

#COP26 decisions aligned with oil & gas industry in the North; #COP28 makes tiny concessions to the South, but includes all the oily language - when you hear 'Carbon capture' think capture of states and process.
#COP29 in Azerbaijan, another petrostate.

Should #LDCs, CVF and #Aosis accept baby steps or call out fossil lobbyists?

#HoldTheLine