Speaker At UN Summit Claims ‘Naming Extreme Heat Events’ Will Help Fight Climate Change
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Harold Hutchison
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November 13, 2024
A speaker at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, also called COP29, in Baku, Azerbaijan, said Wednesday that extreme heat events should be named in order to combat climate change.
The summit, which began Monday, featured speakers proposing taxes on the meat and dairy industry and “climate finance” initiatives for less-developed countries. One speaker, ClimateWorks Foundation CEO Helen Mountford, described the need for “innovative approaches” to fight climate change. (RELATED: ‘We Are Not Learning’: Bjorn Lomborg Says Politicians Hide Behind Climate Change To Duck ‘Responsibility’ For ‘Failures’)
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“This summer, in response to the secretary general’s call for action on extreme heat, we put forward an initial $50 million to help support action in this area, and we will be looking to do more,” Mountford told a panel at the conference. “I want to offer three specific areas where I think we can really help move this agenda forward. One is just, as the U.N. system comes together to work together on this … to provide some of the research and data, support some of that, to provide — to fund pilots and evaluation of heat action plans in key countries to help support getting access to other funds, public and private, in those countries. So that’s one.”
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