no agreement is better than a “bad agreement”, say 300 NGOs in a letter

COP29 went into overtime on Saturday, after twelve days of unsuccessful negotiations.

More than 300 NGOs called on developing countries and China on the night of Friday November 22 to Saturday November 23 to leave the UN climate conference in Baku if rich countries do not increase their financial commitment. COP29 went into overtime on Saturday, after twelve days of unsuccessful negotiations.

“If nothing strong enough is proposed at this COP, we invite you to leave the (negotiations) table to fight another day, and we will fight the same fight,” write 335 organizations in a letter addressed to an alliance of 134 countries bringing together developing countries and China, a group called G77+China.

“We (…) wholeheartedly support you in rejecting the current negotiating text. This text is absolutely unacceptable and allows developed countries to completely free themselves from their obligations in terms of financing the fight against climate change for developing countries”, estimate the NGOs.

COP29 negotiations continued overnight from Friday to Saturday to review the draft agreement published Friday, which included a first offer from rich states. They have committed to increasing their effort from 100 billion per year today to 250 billion dollars by 2035. “We insist: it is better to have no agreement in Baku than a bad agreement, and this is a very, very bad agreement because of the intransigence of the developed countries”underlines the letter again.

Representatives of the Climate Action Network, War on Want and the Climate Justice Coalition also sent a letter signed by 156 organizations in the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan and other countries. other developed countries. We “are deeply outraged by the destructive role you played in the creation of an absolutely unacceptable draft negotiating text (…) on this last day of COP29”details this letter given to Trigg Talley, special envoy of the American president for climate.

NGOs ask developed countries, “instead of avoiding their legal responsibilities (…) to take the initiative to abandon fossil fuels by providing public funds and technologies to developing countries.” “If this COP ends with a weak or no result, you will be to blame,” warn the signatories.