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Even with a Trump withdrawal from the accord, “the Paris Agreement will remain the engine of global climate action long after his final term in office” Bill Hare told Devex.

At the Coming Back from COP29 summit, hosted on December 17 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Climate Analytics Caribbean shared critical analysis of key issues, including finance, adaptation, loss and damage and just transition.

The Global Mitigation Potential Atlas is being extended to include countries beyond Southeast Asia, enabling it to model potential cross-regional partnerships.

“The NCQG commitments fall far short of the financing needed. Developed countries have refused to cooperate and instead have been spouting nonsense about the urgency of the situation. The so-called roadmap by the COP29 Presidency to reach $1.3 trillion per year by 2035 is still vague and there is no clear path to get there,” Thomas Houlie said.

COP29 in Baku has concluded but its outcome is disappointing, writes Bill Hare on The Guardian. "Its decisions on finance – agreeing that the developed world would provide US$300bn a year by 2035 – comes nowhere close to what’s needed."

Just like last year’s initial proposal, which was soundly rejected, this plan is “empty” on what climate analysts call “mitigation” or efforts to reduce emissions from or completely get off coal, oil and natural gas, Bill Hare told PBS.

On Friday 22 Nov at COP29, Bill Hare told AP "no one's ever totally happy with the text. But the differences are so big they’ll have to be bridged before you have any chance of agreement here.”

If Trump pulls out of the Paris Agreement and the rest of the world keeps moving forward, "the US is going to lose export opportunities, it's going to lose investment opportunities abroad," Bill Hare told the BBC.

“It’s symptomatic of the lack of political will to act. There’s no sense of urgency,” Bill Hare told AP. He said this explains “the absolute mess we’re finding ourselves in.”

“We have seen that the $100 billion goal was not sufficient", Dr Fahad Saeed told Al Jazeera. "Not only the amount but also the quality of the support that was provided.”