Posted on 11/12/2024 12:43:55 PM PST by KingofZion
Roughly 100 world leaders are traveling to Baku, Azerbaijan, for the U.N. Climate Change Conference — even as scores are skipping the annual talks, known this year as COP29.
In a Tuesday address before world leaders speak at the summit, U.N. Secretary General António Guterres described the previous year as a “master class in climate destruction,” adding, “The sound you hear is the ticking clock.” He also expressed optimism about the transition to clean energy, saying that “no group, no business, and no government” can stop it.
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg chose to skip the conference: Speaking Monday at a protest in Tbilisi, Georgia, she called the summit’s host Azerbaijan “an authoritarian petrostate” and added that the choice of location was “beyond absurd.”
President Joe Biden does not plan to travel to Baku, but the United States has sent a high-powered delegation in an effort to underline its work to address climate change ahead of Donald Trump’s return to the White House.
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“For tens of thousands of COP29 participants, this is what passes for home over the next 11 days: a prefab city, built around a soccer stadium, where the main architectural accomplishment is the total elimination of natural light. The COP venue stretches on for corridor after corridor, with meeting rooms, plenary halls, national pavilions, coffee shops and a media center. There are so few windows you’d scarcely know you’re near a soccer stadium.
Still, at least for those who don’t mind the casino feel, Azerbaijan has gotten high grades for its early organization of the massive event. Even with world leaders attending and heightened security, public transit ran regularly Tuesday. The lines for registration were short. Smiling volunteers stood sentry around the city.
Because of the venue, this year’s COP has much less fanfare than COP28, in Dubai, which was held in a futuristic architectural playground with breezy outdoor spaces.
This time, things are more compact. The pavilions — where nations set up their headquarters — are set up cubicle style, one after the next. There were few showy splashes, aside from a yurt in Kyrgyzstan’s pavilion. Among the other highlights: nice coffee served by Australia. And a tech-heavy display from Saudi Arabia, the oil-rich kingdom that touted its renewable energy ambitions and offered free pastries to anybody stopping by.”
Progress.
Hey U.N. Secretary General António Guterres — have you invented a new form of clean energy?
If not sit down and shut up.
Will someone get that girl some new batteries for her private little friend.
All you have to do is turn you back on her and she’s gone.
Greta should lower her personal CO2 metabolic output by 50%.
“”Roughly 100 world leaders are traveling to Baku, Azerbaijan, for the U.N. Climate Change Conference “”
HOW do they plan to get there?
is our climate czar, John French Kerry, (who served in Vietnam) there?
If I were donald on day 1 - Cancel his government jet and make him pay (out of his pocket) a coach level ticket home.
In an attempt to cut cost, one-way tickets were all that were required...
Cow. Deer. Ewe.
Greta’s real reason-——”stacking hour” for all the private jets arriving including hers means a boring delay of circling the modest sized airport.
Next time make it a place with more available stretch limos and luxury hotels and maybe a casino, too. She hates getting bored.
nice!
Great photo. Notice the lights are on the left.
“our climate czar, John French Kerry...”
Not for long
Is she still falling off the ugly tree and hitting all the branches on the way down?
She’s 21 years old.....her freakin’ brain isn’t even completely developed yet......obviously.
Who the hell made her an authority on a DAMN thing? 🤷....much less environmental issues.
End the sale of Jet fuel. Climate change will be solved in a week. Once they disband the nonsense, resume.
Lol!!
She’ll need a lifelong supply.
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