North-South Trade Tensions Mark the Opening of a Gloomy COP29

UN climate chief Simon Stiell delivers a speech during the opening of the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku on November 11, 2024. Photo: Alexander Nemenov / AFP

The UN’s COP29 climate summit opened in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Monday. The first day was derailed by agenda negotiations following a request by China and the rest of the BASIC negotiating group (Brazil, South Africa, and India) for talks on carbon border taxes and other environmentally-minded trade restrictions.

COP agendas have to be adopted by consensus, and the wrangling meant that it wasn’t adopted until the evening of the first day. In the end, the EU prevailed, and the border tax issue was not added to the agenda.

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