Tackling Climate Change

The 29th conference of the Parties (COP 29) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change is underway in Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan. While the heads of government or state of many nations are participating in it, around 13 countries, considered the world's biggest polluters, are have not sent their prime ministers or presidents on one pretext or the other. Brazil’s president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said that he was busy preparing for G-20 meetings to be held in his country soon. US President Joe Biden, who now is a lame duck head of government, is unlikely to greatly impact the climate summit. German government has collapsed after Chancellor Olaf Scholz sacked his finance minister. Some leaders will not show up due to the natural disasters that hit their countries while some others have mentioned personal reasons behind their failure to join the event.