COP29 Delivers Too Little

Papua New Guinea boycotted this year’s climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan. The government of the small Pacific island nation branded the global warming negotiations a “waste of time” that would only result in empty promises. In retrospect, it was not wide of the mark. The international community is still not responding with the needed urgency to the climate crisis. Negotiators in Baku agreed on a roadmap for international climate finance. “Roadmap” is a popular term in climate-talks jargon, but it is not as strong as a binding agreement.