Media Advisory • COP29

Oil Change International Media Advisory – COP29 Day 10

As climate finance negotiators push for a breakthrough in Baku during COP29’s tenth day, the urgency for action has never been clearer—with 2024 on track to be the hottest year on record.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

November 20, 2024

Contact: 

Nicole Rodel, Oil Change International (in Baku) – [email protected] / +27842570627 

Valentina Stackl, Oil Change International (ET – remote) – [email protected] +17342766260

Oil Change International Media Advisory – COP29 Day 10

As climate finance negotiators push for a breakthrough in Baku during COP29’s tenth day, the urgency for action has never been clearer—with 2024 on track to be the hottest year on record. While negotiators discuss the new climate finance goal (NCQG), the opportunity remains to secure transformative public funding for climate action. The science demands immediate response: as ecosystems approach tipping points, we need wealthy nations to move beyond inadequate private finance schemes and deliver at least $1 trillion annually in public grants to support Global South countries in implementing climate solutions. With just days remaining, negotiators can still achieve an ambitious agreement that matches the scale of the crisis and enables a just transition away from fossil fuels.

This media advisory outlines: 

Today’s key events and releases:

  • Press Conferences:
    • 9:30 Demand Climate Justice: False Solutions, Press Conference Room Natavan, Zone D
    • Time TBD – New NCQG text media huddle at Media Centre
  • Actions:
    • 9:15-10:00 Global North #PayUp for climate finance! Global South #StandUp for our rights! (Zone B, Action Location 4)
    • 10:00 Stop the Black Snake Kick Big Polluters Out action (Action Location 4, Zone D – near entrance / exit)
    • 10:30 DCJ False Solutions action (Action Location 2, Zone B – near entrance)
    • 12:00 Debt Justice action (Action Location 4, Zone D – near entrance / exit)12:30 Africa Just Transition action (Action Location 4, Zone D – near entrance / exit)
  • Side events
    • 16:45 Oceania First Nations leadership (Side Event Room 6, Zone B)

Spokespeople and areas of focus

At COP29, reach out to us to connect with spokespeople to cover: 

  • Financing a just transition: NCQG, fossil fuel subsidies and finance, financial architecture reform, Clean Energy Transition Partnership, Global Clean Power Alliance, OECD, MDB and G20 finance announcements.
  • Fossil fuel phaseout: Troika fossil fuel expansion, Nationally Determined Contributions, diplomacy and negotiations, abatement, hypocrisy via oil and gas expansion, 1.5ºC scenarios
  • Industry and False Solutions: Industry pledges, Oil and Gas Decarbonization Charter, IEA / WEO, CCS, False Solutions Subsidies, Kick Polluters Out
  • United States: U.S. Election, U.S. fair share NDC, LNG, certified gas, U.S. subsidies, U.S. Congress
  • Africa: Resistance to oil and gas in Africa, oil and gas expansion in Africa

OCI has spokespeople available on the ground at COP29 for interviews and press panels, as well as representatives in alternative timezones for those journalists not in attendance in Baku. 

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