The 29th Annual Conference of Parties was held November 11th through 22nd in Baku, Azerbaijan. This was just six days after the United States elected Donald Trump as the 47th president. Trump’s intentions to pull from the Paris agreement and calling climate efforts a “scam’ brought greater questions to COP29. How would other world leaders …
Continue reading Navigating the Complexity of Climate Negotiations at COP29
Author: Allison Baumgartner, University of Michigan, School of Public Health Introduction. Last November, delegations and observers gathered from across the globe to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of Parties (COP) to discuss and reach a consensus on climate change goals and national commitments. As a global health epidemiologist, the second …
If you are reading this blog post, you may be keeping up with the news around COP29. Scandals and questionable political motives were on full display. In response, a quote I have been thinking about recently: “Those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it. Yet those who do study history are doomed to …
The packed bus lurched forward as I gripped the railing, trying to steady myself in the dense crowd of delegates, activists, and observers leaving the venue at COP29 in Baku. Exhaustion hung in the air, but so did an unspoken camaraderie. A gentle tap on my arm—a man with kind, tired eyes and a red …
Continue reading Hope in the Margins: Conversations That Move Climate Action Forward
As the world grapples with the escalating challenges of climate change, the demand for innovative and effective solutions has never been greater. At COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, I had the opportunity to explore an exciting frontier at the intersection of technology and finance: the need to integrate space technology and space weather into climate finance …
