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Harold Hutcheson
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Extreme heat events should be named to combat climate change, a spokesman at the United Nations climate change conference, also known as COP29, in Baku, Azerbaijan, said on Wednesday.
The summit kicked off on Monday with speakers proposing a tax on the meat and dairy industries and a “climate finance” initiative for less developed countries. Helen Mountford, chief executive of the Climate Jobs Foundation, was one of the speakers and described the need for “innovative approaches” to combating climate change. (Related: 'We're not learning': Bjorn Lomborg says politicians are hiding behind climate change, avoiding 'responsibility' for 'failure')
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“This summer, in response to the Secretary-General's call for action on extreme heat, we have made an initial offer of $50 million to help support action in this area, and we will be looking to do more,” Mountford told one of the conference's expressed in the group. “I would like to raise three specific areas where I think we can really help move this agenda forward. One is, as the United Nations system comes together and works together to… provide some research and data, support some of this, provide — funding in key countries Pilot and heat action plan evaluations to help support access to other public and private funds in these countries. So that's one.
“The second issue is really that given the urgency and the unprecedented nature of what we're seeing with extreme heat, we need to be open to different, many different approaches. We need to quickly test, try, and learn from them , keep moving forward, take risks and innovate,” Mountford said. “One example right now is naming extreme heat events, which I'm pleased to continue to support.”
Natural disasters such as hurricanes and wildfires are often named for tracking purposes and to simplify reporting, however, the National Weather Service claims that weather patterns such as heat waves have historically not been named because they are “highly correlated,” NPR reported earlier Year.
Multiple officials from the Biden administration — who dropped a major emissions initiative at the event — including Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, White House climate adviser John Podesta and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, are Azerbaijan participated in this event. According to Bloomberg, Podesta told attendees in a speech on Monday that the United States will continue to participate in the fight against climate change despite the election of former President Trump.
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