Delegates collect in Azerbaijan for UN local weather convention.
Leaders from world wide are assembly to deal with the local weather disaster.
Azerbaijan is internet hosting this yr’s United Nations COP29 conference with delegates tackling methods to curb international warming.
Scientists warn progress just isn’t on monitor and inaction may trigger irreversible injury to our planet.
Funding can also be on the agenda. Growing nations want plenty of it – as much as a trillion {dollars} – to assist cut back the influence of pure disasters, made worse by local weather change.
However some are questioning if the re-election in the USA of Donald Trump, a local weather change sceptic, will change plans and even derail agreements when he takes workplace in January.
So will politics play a task at this gathering?
Presenter: Elizabeth Puranam
Friends:
Harjeet Singh – international engagement director of the nonprofit Fossil Gasoline Treaty Initiative, a worldwide marketing campaign to speed up a transition to renewable power
Nazanine Moshiri – senior analyst on local weather, surroundings and battle for Africa on the Worldwide Disaster Group
Fahad Saeed – local weather scientist on the Local weather Analytics suppose tank and adviser to the chair of the least developed international locations group at COP29
