The Congress meeting convened by the President of COP29 was held today, APA reports.
The meeting discussed several proposals and document drafts, including, "New collective quantified goal on climate finance. Streamlined compilation of proposals serving as transition to Presidency draft decision text, including options emanating from the Ministerial consultations", "Matters relating to cooperative approaches referred to in Article 6, paragraph 2, of the Paris Agreement", "Matters related to the Adaptation Fund in the context of the Isla", "Report of the Adaptation Fund Board", "Issues related to the forum on the impact of implementing response measures under the Kyoto Protocol", "Report of the Green Climate Fund to the Conference of the Parties and leadership of the Green Climate Fund", "Global goals related to adaptation", "Gender and climate change", "Sharm El-Sheikh's mitigation ambitions and implementation work program", and ther document drafts.
COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev noted that the COP29 is scheduled to conclude tomorrow and provided an update on the discussions held during the event.
COP29 Lead Negotiator Yalchin Rafiyev stated that progress had been made on some difficult issues during COP29, and a simplified set of proposals had already been prepared.
Representatives from Australia, Japan, Malta, Honduras, Pakistan, Zambia, New Zealand, and Bolivia shared their positions on the documents, emphasizing the need for COP29 to send clear signals across all areas of climate action, with a focus on the importance of climate finance. They also addressed the shortcomings in documents from previous COPs, expressing hope that decisions made at COP29 would lead developed countries to allocate climate finance to address the challenges faced by developing countries in relation to climate change. Proposals on the discussed documents were also put forward.
Jennifer Morgan, secretary of state and special envoy for international climate action at the German Foreign Ministry expressed dissatisfaction with the national contributions outlined in the documents, stressing the necessity for the documents to reflect the concerns of the European Union.
The event continued with further discussions.
Zulfiyya Orujaliyeva
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