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FIIA Climate Briefing: Analysis of the Baku Climate Meeting

Webinar · 27.11.2024 09:00 - 10:15

The yearly round of UN climate negotiations, COP 29, takes place in Baku, Azerbaijan. Once again, more than 50 000 participants are expected to the meeting and its numerous side events. In the multilateral negotiations between governments, the agenda is topped by the ambition of the next national commitments, and climate finance to assist developing countries in addressing climate change. Negotiators will try to set a New Collective Quantified Goal on climate finance for 2025 and onwards, working from the $100 billion per year commitment that countries agreed upon before.

What was achieved in the negotiations, and what was left on the table? What does the political aftermath of the Baku conference look like? How did Azerbaijan, another major oil and gas producing country, succeed as a COP president?

Two prominent experts, Associate Professor Yulia Yamineva (CCEEL) and Postdoctoral Fellow Karoliina Hurri (FIIA & Arctic Centre), share their insights directly from the Baku plenaries and corridors after attending the meeting.

Moderator: Antto Vihma, Research Professor, FIIA

The webinar is organised together with the Center for Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Law (CCEEL) at the University of Eastern Finland.

You can register for the event here.

Speakers

Yulia Yamineva

Associate Professor, University of Eastern Finland

Yulia Yamineva is an Associate Professor in Climate Law and Policy at the Centre for Climate, Energy and Environmental Law, University of Eastern Finland. Her research on various aspects of global climate law and governance has been published in leading academic journals. Yamineva has been a long-term observer of UN climate change negotiations, particularly in the climate finance workstream. Prior to her academic career, she worked for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat and the International Institute for Sustainable Development.

Karoliina Hurri

Postdoctoral Fellow, FIIA

Karoliina Hurri is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center on Climate Politics and Security (CLIPS) at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. Her research focuses on global climate governance, climate responsibility and the geopolitics of climate change. She is part of the Kone Foundation funded project “Climate Responsibility as a Normative Cornerstone of Multilateral Cooperation?” at the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland. She gained her D.Soc.Sci degree in World Politics at the University of Helsinki in 2023. Her doctoral dissertation focused on the construction of climate leadership and China’s role in the UN climate negotiations.

Moderator

Antto Vihma

Research Professor, FIIA

Antto Vihma works as a Research Professor at FIIA. He is the PI in an Academy of Finland funded project TRANSCLIM (2020–2024), which studies transparency in global climate governance. His research has centered on climate politics, policy analysis, and political theory. He has approached climate change in a multidisciplinary way, combining the research traditions of International Relations (IR) and international law. In addition, Vihma has engaged in case studies, including several in the Global South. The results have been published in leading journals such as International Affairs, Geopolitics, and Global Environmental Politics. In 2012-2016, he was writer/editor for the Earth Negotiations Bulletin (IISD).

Vihma has also co-authored a monograph on post-truth politics (Totuuden jälkeen, in Finnish), which was shortlisted for the Kanava prize in 2018. His latest monograph on the politics of nostalgia (Nostalgia: Teoria ja käytäntö, in Finnish), was awarded the State Award for Public Information in 2022.