COP29: “It is essential that Belgium be present at the negotiating table”

COP29, which is being held until November 22 in Baku, must notably decide on a new collective climate financing objective on the part of developed countries to help developing countries reduce the consequences of global warming and respond to them. adapt.

Climate finance: who pays what and who wants what at COP29?

The preparations for national climate plans (CDN or NDC in the negotiating jargon), which each country will have to submit by February 2025, under the Paris Agreement, represent another challenge of this COP29.

“In Baku, just as during previous COPs, I will be at the negotiating table with the terrible images of these climate disasters, and many others around the world, in mind,” Ms. Khattabi further emphasizes, referring to the floods. in Spain, Bangladesh, Nepal and Kenya, heat waves in India and the Philippines and forest fires in the Amazon rainforest, which occurred in this last year alone.

“Climate disruption is claiming victims in all four corners of the globe and it could get even worse, according to scientists. It is time for big speeches to give way to ambitious, immediate and coordinated action,” concludes Zakia Khattabi.