Depending upon your perspective 2024, the two major environmental conferences at the end of the year were either a crushing disappointment or were to be expected all things considered.
Baku, the capital of petro state Azerbaijan, hosted COP29, the United Nations climate change conference. Some criticized its lack of results saying that it made no firm commitments. And the same could be said of the UN’s plastics pollution summit in Korea.
Our regular sustainability contribute Apu Gosalia is much more sanguine than critics of both conferences. He takes a more pragmatic approach believing that incremental change is more realistic than radical action.
