This year, delegates from nearly 200 countries have gathered in Azerbaijan for the United Nations climate change conference called COP29. The New York Times reported https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/12/climate/cop29-trump-oil-and-gas.html. that the smell of gasoline has lingered over negotiations both literally and figuratively in a petrostate whose president refers to fossil fuels as a “gift from God.” https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/12/cop29-host-azerbaijan-brands-oil-and-gas-gift-from. Charges of greenwashing have been leveraged against the conference by activists like Greta Thunberg https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/11/greta-thunberg-cop29-authoritarian-human-rights-azerbaijan-greenwashing. while global climate leaders are calling for COP reform https://www.weforum.org/stories/2024/11/cop-climate-talks-need-reform-nature-climate-stories-read-this-week/. and nations in attendance struggle to reach an agreement regarding a New Collective Quantified Goal (NCGQ). Yet confronting the challenge of climate change will require global cooperation.
- How do the political and economic dynamics of COP29 reflect the ongoing influence of fossil fuel industries and historical systems of exploitation (like colonialism and capitalism) on global climate negotiations?
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