Iman Berry’s Post

Last month I had a chance to represent Green Ummah at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan 🇦🇿. The Conference of Parties is a meeting of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to further global progress on combatting Climate Change. 🇺🇳 We were closely following the Just Transition negotiations stream, which focuses on facilitating a fair transition from the world we live in today to one that is actively combatting climate change. In the context of Canada, that could look like re-training Oil workers. However, at COP29, there seemed to be no consensus on the Just Transition stream, and discussions were delayed for later conferences. In terms of negotiations, the COP was disappointing, to say the least. One of the main goals of the COP this year was to design and decide key elements of a goal for Climate finance. Developed nations have agreed to help channel “at least” $300bn a year into developing countries by 2035 to support their efforts to deal with climate change, and there was a looser call to raise 1.3tn each year by 2035. However, there is little accountability or mechanism for exactly how this would be operationalized. Overall, attending COP29 was an enjoyable and hopeful experience because of the presence of youth and civil society. Always in awe of our peers who are doing incredible work to combat climate change all over the world! 🌎 All views/opinions are my own