COP29: The Famished Freeloaders of Baku
The Famished Freeloaders of Baku By Tony Thomas This fictional story is “inspired by true events”, as they like to label movies these days. The setting is COP29 last week in Baku, where the Blue Zone is exclusive to the 17,680 official reps (“Parties”) and 16,305 official hangers-on, the latter dubbed “Party Overflow”.[1] The COP official list included […]
UK Times: ‘Cop29 was described by veteran negotiators as the worst UN climate summit they had experienced’
UK Times: “Cop29 was described by veteran negotiators as the worst UN climate summit they had experienced: wind was taken out of its sails before it even started with the election of climate-sceptic Donald Trump in the US; the Azerbaijan hosts, with an economy saturated in oil, never committed to the summit’s aims; and many world leaders stayed at home. Senior climate figures called for an overhaul of the entire process, proposing smaller, more focused Cop summits, and hosts to be rejected if they do not support a move away from fossil fuels.”