COP29 begins with Trump expected to pull out of Paris climate accords

[Music] delegates arrive in Baku to a major reality check the venue for this year's climate talks is sandwiched between two oil fields the so-called nodding donkeys pumping azan's oil wealth quietly remind negotiators fossil fuels flow faster than ever less quietly America's next president is doing the same leave the oil to me we have more Liquid Gold oil and gas we have more liquid gold than any country in the world more than Saudi Arabia we have more than Russia the president-elect's campaign promised to pull out of the Paris agreement couldn't have come at a worst time

this year is expected to be 1 and A2 degre warmer than pre-industrial times the very threshold the Paris plan was supposed to avoid tasked with radically accelerating an end to fossil fuels the TS already had their work cut out being hosted once again in a Petro State there's so much oil and gas right under Baku here the rocks are on fire natural gas seeping up through these fishes is thought to have burned continuously for about 4,000 years no wonder then that aaban gets 98% of its energy from fossil fuels and despite being president of this

year's climate Summit it shows no intention of changing that as well as announcing more ambitious carbon cutting plans which aaban may still do cop 29 must agree a new financing deal to help developing countries like it transition away from fossil fuels the US was seen as key to that process and though its negotiators here still serve President Biden what weight will their words carry if their next boss intends to fire them it's a blow uh but what I want people to understand is that the federal government is one thing states in the International Community are

entirely different we can continue to work with them in concert with understanding that while we may be delayed again as a result of the Trump Administration that we're not giving up we're going to keep moving forward but what can't be ignored is that Mr Trump just witnessed the lethal impacts of weather like Hurrican Helen made more extreme by warmer temperatures more than 72 million Americans would have seen it too and still voted for him a collective apathy towards climate change that will hang heavy at these Talks Tom Clark Sky News Baku