COP29 lays bare the deep, systemic failure of global climate governance. The conference was overrun by 1,700 fossil fuel lobbyists, who effectively dictated terms while right-wing populists obstructed progress and denied science. This isn’t diplomacy; it’s complicity in planetary destruction.

The European Union, shamefully crowned Fossil of the Day by the Climate Action Network, failed to propose even a baseline figure for climate finance. Meanwhile, developed nations offered crumbs: $300 billion annually by 2035, heavily reliant on private loans, instead of the non-debt-based grants desperately needed by the Global South. With the 1.5°C threshold on the brink of collapse, this is nothing short of a betrayal.

The climate crisis doesn’t wait, and neither can we. Every year of delay deepens suffering—not just for people but for animals and ecosystems already devastated by wildfires, floods, and habitat loss. Biodiversity is collapsing, and the natural world we depend on is unraveling. The $300 billion promised by 2035 is a hollow gesture; the money must come now, not in ten years. Climate justice delayed is climate justice denied.

The fossil fuel alliance—spearheaded by autocracies like Azerbaijan, which used COP29 as a PR stage while signing gas deals—has hijacked climate action.

The Left demands real climate justice. Anything less is not just inaction but a collusion with catastrophe. The fight continues at COP30 in Belém, Brazil, where the world must choose: justice and survival or corporate profit and collapse.