Breakthroughs, Setbacks in COP29’s First Week of Ambitious Pursuit of Climate Consensus

Erik Solheim, former director of the UN Environment Programme and former Norwegian Minister of Environment and International Development at COP29. Credit: Joyce Chimbi/IPS

By Joyce Chimbi
BAKU, Nov 17 2024 (IPS)

It has been a high-profile packed agenda in Baku, Azerbaijan, marked by milestone events designed to complete the first enhanced transparency framework and the new collective quantified goal on finance, among other top priority matters.

Besides the Conference of the Parties (COP 29) session...