Comment: As host of the COP29 top, Baku should stop fossil fuel growth, cut its emissions additional, and work to provide an enthusiastic environment financing objective
Joseph Zane Sikulu is a member of the Pacific Climate Warriors and Pacific Director for environment project group 350.org. Here is his open letter to Mukhtar Babayev, president-designate of the COP29 UN environment top, which will take location in November in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Dear COP29 President-Designate Babayev,
My name is Joseph Sikulu, and I am Tongan. Last week you wentto my home island, where your group seen torrential rains and an earthquake. You seen how vulnerable our individuals are to catastrophes, and how ready we should be to fulfill them.
The intensifying environment crisis intensifies currently devastating catastrophes and last week, as COP29 President-Designate, you satisfied with the UN Secretary-General here in Tonga and acknowledged our truths. You made a dedication to enhance the voices of the Pacific Islands and develop a more resistant, sustainable future ahead of COP29.
But the time for magnifying our voices is over. We requirement action. Fossil fuels are at the root of this crisis, fossil fuels threaten our islands.
Despite being challenged with ravaging environment effects, and the potentialcustomers of numerous more, we collected in uniformity for the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting. We battle. And if we battle, we anticipate the verysame from you.
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The Pacific hasactually done the least to contribute to the environment crisis, yet we are battling it the hardest. Pacific island nations haveactually dedicated to accomplishing web absolutelyno by 2050 and 100% sustainable energy targets. A shift to renewables implies hope and survival.
If we can do it, so can you. As the next COP President, it is your task to show management. In a letter to nation delegations you called on them to provide 1.5C-aligned NDCs and devoted Azerbaijan to doing the exactsame. But keeping 1.5 alive indicates no fossil fuel growth.
Yet, this year, your president, Ilham Aliyev, called fossil fuels “a present from the gods”. For us in the Pacific, suc