{"id":12716,"date":"2024-11-24T12:58:30","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T07:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=12716"},"modified":"2024-11-24T12:58:30","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T07:13:30","slug":"un-chief-says-cop29-deal-sets-foundation-to-build-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/un-chief-says-cop29-deal-sets-foundation-to-build-on\/","title":{"rendered":"UN chief says COP29 deal sets ‘foundation’ to build on"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed concern that the climate finance deal agreed early Sunday in Azerbaijan did not go far enough, as he urged nations to view it as a “foundation” on which to build.<\/p>\n

“I had hoped for a more ambitious outcome — on both finance and mitigation — to meet the great challenge we face,” Guterres said in a statement, adding that he is appealing “to governments to see this agreement as a foundation — and build on it.”<\/p>\n

After two exhaustive weeks of negotiations, the final deal commits developed nations to pay at least $300 billion a year by 2035 to help developing countries green their economies and prepare for worse disasters.<\/p>\n

That is up from $100 billion now provided by wealthy countries under a commitment set to expire — and from the $250 billion proposed in an earlier draft Friday.<\/p>\n

The deal “must be honoured in full and on time,” Guterres said.<\/p>\n

“Commitments must quickly become cash. All countries must come together to ensure the top-end of this new goal is met.”<\/p>\n

The UN chief said that “an agreement at COP29 was absolutely essential to keep the 1.5 degree limit alive.”<\/p>\n

“And countries have delivered.”<\/p>\n

He called on countries to deliver new economy-wide climate action plans “well ahead of COP30 — as promised.”<\/p>\n

“The end of the fossil fuel age is an economic inevitability. New national plans must accelerate the shift, and help to ensure it comes with justice,” he said, closing with a message to activists pushing for more to “keep it up.”<\/p>\n

“The United Nations is with you. Our fight continues. And we will never give up,” Guterres said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed concern that the climate finance deal agreed early Sunday in Azerbaijan did not go far enough, as he urged nations to view it as a “foundation” on which to build. “I had hoped for a more ambitious outcome — on both finance and mitigation — to meet the great challenge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12717,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12716\/revisions\/12717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}