Carmelite NGO Present at COP29 to Discuss Environmental Concerns

In this issue of CarmeNGO, Dr. Renato Francesco Rallo reports on Azerbaijan’s climate summit and offers a personal reflection on the COPs (Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change of which the Carmelite NGO is a member) taking place in various parts of the world. He writes “As long as the COPs continue to exist, that alone is already a success because humans have historically been much more accustomed to waging wars than holding conferences.” He calls the COPs “the rarest experience of humanity as a whole.”

COP29 was hosted by Azerbaijan, a country with significant fossil fuel interests, resulting in little expectation of positive results from the conference. However, two steps forward were taken: a carbon credit market agreement and a new agreement on the financial contributions that the countries would make towards energy transition.

There was also a seven-point plan from a group from Rome, proposals to change some of the processes employed by COP making it more efficient.

Renato Rallo holds a PhD in Energy Engineering and was the COP29 Observer Delegation head of the Carmelite NGO. The first COP was held in Berlin, Germany in 1995.

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