Ana Mulio Alvarez On COP29

How did COP29 advance (or obstruct) the climate adaptation agenda? 

While the conference produced a controversial new climate finance goal, this had little to offer developing countries working to climate-proof their populations. On the other hand, agreement on a way forward for the Global Goal on Adaptation, a central plank of the Paris Agreement, offers hope that countries will be better able to measure adaptation progress — and demand the finance, expertise, and technologies they need to round out their national adaptation plans.

In this episode, Louie is joined by Ana Mulio Alvarez, a researcher focused on the UNFCCC, adaptation, and loss and damage at the international think tank E3G. Ana was on the ground for the entirety of the Baku summit, and has unparalleled insight into the adaptation and resilience negotiations that took place.

She unpacks her adaptation wins and fails of COP29, and gives her expert opinion on whether these summits are still worth the struggle.

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We talk about:

👉 How adaptation was relegated in the New Collective Quantified Goal on climate finance

👉 Whether the new “Baku to Belém Roadmap to 1.3T” represents a sincere effort to scale up financing, or is just another talking shop

👉 The struggles of the UN’s Adaptation Fund

👉 Targets, progress indicators, and their importance to the Global Goal on Adaptation

👉 What the deal is with “transformational adaptation”

👉 Whether COP is worth saving

Future guests include Jonathan Bowers of Path & Focus and Julia Kumari Drapkin from ISEECHANGE.

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Louie Woodall
Editor