Vanuatu’s Special Envoy for Climate Change and the Environment has a scathing assessment of COP29’s outcomes.
“The commitments made in Baku—the dollar amounts pledged and the emissions reductions promised—are not enough. They were never going to be enough. And even then, based on our experience with such pledges in the past, we know they will not be fulfilled,” said Ralph Regenvanu.
He noted that the past two climate COPS have been hosted by nations who depend on fossil fuel extraction and that Vanuatu’s focus is now on the International Court . . .
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