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When the world’s climate negotiators gather in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Nov. 11 for the start of the 2024 UN Climate Change Conference, COP29, they will have little to show for the previous 28 rounds of negotiations and agreements, which have failed to deliver significant results as carbon emissions continue to rise.

Emission levels are now so high, with no signs of easing, and the state of the global climate so dire that the UN’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, which oversees the negotiations, issued a warning a few days ago that global warming will continue to rise sharply for many years to come.

A report by the World Meteorological Organization backed up this assertion. It found that greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a record high in 2023, and issued a stark warning that this means the world is bound to experience rising temperatures in the years ahead.

The organization attributed the increase in greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere to a number of factors, including large wildfires that might have reduced the ability of forests to absorb carbon, and “stubbornly high” emissions caused by human activity. It said carbon dioxide is accumulating in the atmosphere at the fastest rate in human history, and........

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