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UN climate negotiations were a major bummer
Why $300 billion in climate aid just isn’t enough.
Then again, the biggest outcome — or disappointment, depending on how you look at it — was an incremental increase in the amount of climate aid wealthier nations committed to less affluent countries dealing with the consequences of other people’s pollution. The final agreement coming out of Azerbaijan includes looser aspirational language that calls on countries to “work together to enable the scaling up of financing” from public and private sources to $1.3 trillion. While speaking at the summit, both Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev and OPEC Secretary General Haitham al-Ghais used similar language to describe oil and gas as a “gift from God.”
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