Tim Daiss has been an energy markets, sustainability and geopolitical journalist and analyst in the Asia-Pacific region for the past 15 years.
The 12-day COP29 climate conference, which concluded Saturday in Baku, Azerbaijan, was meant to break from tradition. Organizers envisioned a leaner, more efficient, and friendlier gathering with fewer attendees. There were also hopes of bridging divides between developed nations -- the so-called Global North -- seen as the primary drivers of climate change, and developing countries -- the Global South -- which bear its harshest impacts. That did not happen.
