Posts Tagged: baku

COP29 Wrap Up

After days of long, intense marathon sessions of negotiation, COP 29 concluded in the early hours of Sunday morning in Baku. The negotiated outcomes included a new $300 billion international climate finance goal, known as the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG). President Biden issued a statement praising the outcome, noting this goal “will help mobilize the… Read more »

ACT Alliance disappointed with NCQG draft

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  NOVEMBER 22, 2024 BAKU, AZERBAIJAN.  ACT Alliance is extremely disappointed in the new text offered on the New Collective Quantified Goal for climate finance today at COP29.  This conference has been called the “finance COP”, yet this document does not provide anywhere near enough funding and there are no arrangements to hold… Read more »

“Youth are leaders now, not just tomorrow.”

During COP29, the World Council of Churches (WCC) interviewed Patricia Mungcal, a young climate advocate and humanitarian leader from the National Council of Churches in the Philippines and a member of the ACT Alliance delegation. Speaking from Baku, Azerbaijan, Mungcal reflected on the challenges faced by frontline communities in disaster-prone regions, the barriers youth face… Read more »

Living up to COP29’s climate adaptation ambition 

Climate change impacts all of us, wherever we live, work, or go to school.  And in all parts of the world, people are creating economies and societies that are more resilient to climate change, ones in which clean, renewable energy is combined with sustainable use of water, land, and other natural resources.  In many places, local… Read more »

Week One Wrap Up at COP29

The first week of the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, is over. As the gathering heads into the second week, here are some points worth noting: Week 1 of COP is typically meant to finalize as much as possible in negotiations so that Week 2 can focus on the most complicated issues. As… Read more »

Climate Finance at COP29

At COP29 today the United States announced that it scaled up U.S. support for vulnerable developing countries to over $3 billion in FY23 to implement the President’s Emergency Plan for Adaptation and Resilience (PREPARE). At the COP 29 U.S. Center today, speakers representing U.S. federal and local government, private sector, and civil society discussed how… Read more »

Creation is a gift from God, and we are called to steward it

In response to a statement by the Azerbaijani Presidency of the COP in which he defended the right of developing nations to sell their oil and gas as “gifts from God”, WCC and the ACT Alliance issued the following Press Release. As a member of ACT Alliance and the World Council of Churches, the PC(USA)… Read more »

African hopes for COP29

As COP29 kicks off this week in Baku, Azerbaijan we  reshare this post from our partners at ACT Alliance. The following was the result of a virtual meeting of  East and Southern Africa faith leaders in July 2024. They requested that ACT Alliance, Caritas Internationalis, and the Anglican Alliance develop this statement based on their… Read more »