At the United Nations climate talks in Baku, Azerbaijan, wars are top of mind for some leaders and activists who have converged to discuss ways to limit global warming. They say the conflicts in Gaza, Ukraine and elsewhere can be a distraction for some countries in confronting the climate crisis.
Activist Mohammed Usrof participates in a demonstration for climate justice and a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Monday, Nov. 11, 2024, in Baku , Azerbaijan. Activists say they read names of victims of genocide during a demonstration at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024, in Baku , Azerbaijan. Simon Stiell, United Nations climate chief, left, talks with Achim Steiner , United Nations development programme administrator, at the COP29 U.N.
Many world leaders used their opening remarks to describe how extreme weather had ravaged their countries, making issues such as poverty, energy security and access to water and food worse or more uncertain. And that risks more conflict, they said. And Russia’s war in Ukraine has sent the equivalent of 150 million tons of heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere that wouldn’t have happened without the war, according to a 2023 report from the Initiative on Greenhouse Gas Accounting of War, a group of researchers whose funding comes in part from the European Climate Foundation. That’s more than the annual greenhouse gas emissions from a country like Belgium.
Dozens of protesters in Baku specifically targeted Western support for Israel. One of them, Lise Masson of Friends of the Earth International, said countries like the United States and Britain, as well as the European Union, could spend more on climate finance instead. “When, you know, the ability of developing countries in particular to adapt to and respond to these crises was being better supported by the wealthy global north then we might see an acceleration of climate action,” she said.
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