"Baku was the second worst climate Cop of the 18 that I have covered. In rancour and division, it was rivalled only by Copenhagen in 2009, which notoriously ended in chaos and discord."
"What failed at Baku is that governments refused to put aside their apparent short-term interests in favour of the real long-term interests they all know are firmly on the side of climate action."
"By the time we were standing in the converted stadium for the two weeks of an exceptionally bad-tempered conference... the flame was invisible."
"Rich countries came preparing to offer only $300bn a year in direct overseas aid... leaving the rest of the $1.3tn to come from a mixture of potential new levies on high-carbon activities and the private sector."
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