Down To Earth's video: Neelesh Sah moefcc Government of india speaks at the Closing Plenary Week 1 of cop29azerbaijan

Closing plenary of subsidiary bodies At the closing plenary for the subsidiary bodies (SB), countries expressed disappointment on the slow progress of negotiations on important agenda items such as the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) and the Mitigation Work Programme (MWP). India, Bolivia on behalf of the Like Minded Developing Countries (LMDC) and Kenya on behalf of the African Group of Negotiators (AGN) accused developed countries of expanding the mandate of the MWP and making it obligatory and prescriptive. Developed and some developing country Parties pointed out the importance of MWP to keep the planet under the 1.5°C threshold. Many important agendas such as MWP, Reviews of the Adaptation Committee and the Warsaw International Mechanism (WIM) for loss and damage will be taken up at the SB62 conference in Bonn, Germany, in June 2025. Negotiations on the rest of the agenda items will continue in the second week of COP29. Down to Earth is Science and Environment fortnightly published by the Society for Environmental Communication, New Delhi. We publish news and analysis on issues that deal with sustainable development, which we scan through the eyes of science and environment.