BAKU, Azebaijan
Delegates of developing countries reacted to the UN climate talks agreement on a $300B a year for humanity’s fight against climate change.
The deal is aimed at helping
poor nations cope with the ravages of global warming in tense negotiations in
the city where industry first tapped oil.
COP29 President Mukhtar
Babayev gaveled the deal into acceptance before any nation had a chance to
speak.
When they did they blasted him
for being unfair to them, the deal for not being enough and the world's rich
nations for being too stingy.
“It’s a paltry sum,” India
negotiator Chandni Raina said, repeatedly saying how India objected to rousing
cheers.
“I’m sorry to say we cannot
accept it.”
She added that the amount
"to be mobilized is abysmally poor" and said that developed countries
are forcing developing ones to adapt without accounting for the need for
economic growth.
"It is not something that
will enable conducive climate action that is necessary for the survival of our
country, and for the growth of our people, their livelihoods,"she
stressed.
A long line of nations agreed
with India and piled on, with Nigeria's Nkiruka Maduekwe, CEO of the National
Council on Climate Change, calling the deal an insult and a joke.
She also said it was
unrealistic, and that developed countries need to take more responsibility for
their historical and current role in worsening climate change.
"It is not something we
should take lightly. I do not think is something we should clap our hands
(for)," she added.
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