The COP29 meeting in Baku has been eclipsed in the news agenda by the rise of Donald Trump. As details of the President’s new team slowly emerge, those who invest their hopes and dreams in the annual spectacle have been further frustrated by events in and outside the conference. X owner, Elon Musk is, as expected, going to jointly head up the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) with Vivek Ramaswamy.
Back in Baku, the Argentinian delegation was withdrawn, defeating Ed Miliband and Keir Starmer’s hopes for “climate leadership”. Javier Milei, who famously took his chainsaw to many of Argentina’s bloated bureaucracies, looks more like the trendsetter after all, with DOGE set to follow in this model.
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