COP29 Day 9
DAY 9 Agriculture and tourism
Message from Simon Stiell Executive Secretary of UN Climate Change
G20 Leaders have sent a clear message to their negotiators at #COP29: do not leave Baku without a successful new finance goal. This is in every country’s clear interests. Leaders of the world’s largest economies have also committed to driving forward financial reforms to put strong climate action within all countries’ reach. This is an essential signal, in a world plagued by debt crises and spiraling climate impacts, wrecking lives, slamming supply chains and fanning inflation in every economy. Leaders have reinforced that global cooperation is utterly essential, and COP29 must show how’s it done, with an ambitious new finance goal, as the central pillar of a balanced package. Stronger new national climate plans are also essential, as the G20 leaders note, to move much faster to a clean-energy and climate-resilient global economy right now. G20 delegations now have their marching orders for here in Baku, where we urgently need all nations to bypass the posturing and move swiftly towards common ground, across all issues.
On Agriculture day of COP29 Farmers in the UK travelled on mass to Westminster to protest against new inheritance tax of 20% for farms worth over 1 million pounds. With many of these farms barely scrapping a living, it may mean they have to sell the farm because they can’t afford to pass it down through the family.
- 30 countries, collectively responsible for nearly 50% of global methane from organic waste emissions, have today endorsed the COP29 declaration on reducing methane from organic waste.Today, the COP29 Presidency launched the Reducing Methane from Organic Waste Declaration, with over 30 states amongst the initial signatories (who combined represent 47% of global methane emissions from organic waste) declaring their commitment to set sectoral targets to reducing methane from organic waste within future NDCs.
The Declaration on Reducing Methane from Organic Waste supports previous COP commitments, including the Lowering Organic Waste Methane (LOW-Methane) initiative to cut 1 million metric tons of annual waste sector emissions and the broader Global Methane Pledge to cut all global methane emissions at least 30% by 2030.
Food loss and waste accounts for 8-10% of total annual greenhouse gas emissions and methane emissions from food waste in landfills are a significant component, representing 3% of total greenhouse gas emissions.
Sustainable tourism was also discussed.
