In Baku, Azerbaijan, the COP negotiators are in a race against time as the draft final agreement for COP29, published on the morning of Thursday 21 November by the Azerbaijani Presidency, has come in for strong criticism. In particular, it has been deemed “unbalanced, impossible to achieve and unacceptable” by the European Commissioner for Climate Action, Wopke Hoekstra.
During his speech at the ‘Qurultay’ plenary session, he said that he was particularly “disappointed” by the...