Baku climate conference ignores Africa's power to capture carbon emissions

A woman cleans next to COP29 banner in Baku. [AFP]

Africa holds the potential to capture more than 20 times the world's oil and gas emissions - blamed for causing climate change - but cannot get a hearing in a global climate agenda that is leading the world into an ever-deeper weather crisis.

Global leaders now in Baku at the COP29 environment conference have scheduled natural solutions to climate change as a fifth, or lower, agenda item, behind international carbon trading and an energy transition.