Excerpt and photo from undp.org
As the 29th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) gets underway in Baku, Azerbaijan from November 11-22, climate finance tops the agenda as the key to unlocking concrete climate actions on the ground.
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) like Samoa is following this with much interest and anticipation as a lot depends on climate financing decisions to be made at COP29, which has been aptly dubbed the Finance COP.
A lot is at stake for SIDS. The triple threats of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution are causing a huge strain on the world’s economic, environment and social wellbeing, even more so on SIDS, whose environments and resources are struggling under the weight of all this.
Interconnected COPs, Interconnected Crises, Interconnected Solutions
The three major UN COPs – Biodiversity COP16, Climate COP29 and Desertification COP16 – are all happening in this last quarter of the year, within six weeks of each other. This underscores the connectedness of the crises they address; climate instability, biodiversity loss, land degradation, desertification, and droughts.