Instead of tackling the climate crisis or confronting Israel’s “environmental catastrophe” in Gaza, the world’s governments appear to have spent COP29 in Baku turning a blind eye and a deaf ear, convincing themselves that this widespread destruction isn’t happening.
As is now customary, the conference was mired in controversy and hypocrisy before it began. This time around, senior Azerbaijani officials were exposed trying to use the conference as a forum to decide fossil fuel deals, further undermining COP’s climate credentials.
Yet, after one year of accelerated genocide in Gaza and occupied Palestine, the display at the Israeli Pavilion sticks out as the most striking and shameful symbol of COP29’s collective failings. …..more
