FB LIVE RECORDING: Dialogue Forum 3 I Year 5: Post COP29 and the Way Forward

A policy forum on development and environmental challenges and policies to “bridge the gap” and “connect the dots” to create one big picture for better understanding and decision-making in the society

COP29 (The 29th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)) drew controversy since the first day it was convened.  First, the venue of the meeting was located in Azerbaijan, the world’s 18th largest oil exporter and 24th largest oil producer. 

Second, the event was highly expected from the first day that it would help deliver a replacement of the current climate finance, which remains vague since its birth in COP15 in 2009. This prompted the event to be dubbed as “finance COP”. 

The so-called New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance (NCQG) was aimed at reframing the climate finance, which was first set at around US $100 billion a year out of the promises from developed countries to support climate action of developing countries. With climate disasters taking place more intensely, the needs for climate finance, however, are growing five times or more, or at least US $500 billion to one trillion a year.

Last but not least is the so-called “fossil fuel fights”, under which countries lockhorned in the future of what agreed in COP28; “transitioning away from fossil fuels”.

All these have come down to a broad term of climate justice, under which policymakers as well as climate justice advocates are trying to come to terms with it at all fronts amid all differences they have.

Realising what the outcomes of this COP mean to the future of the planet and people, including Thai citizens, the Dialogue Forum has invited the public to explore Post COP29 and the way forward together with the policymakers and experts in the field at the first forum of the forum series, Post COP29 and Climate (In) Justice? Dialogue Forum 3 l Year 5: Post COP29 and the Way Forward, where they shared their knowledge, views, and insights about the issue and challenges.

Watch the recording here.

The forum was organised by Bangkok Tribune in collaboration with its partners; Decode. plus, Thai SEJ, and SEA-Junction.