However, participants at the U.N. climate summit are also arguing over something else: where to hold COP 29.
Carmen Roberta De Oliveira Taboada is a delegate from Brazil.
"So, are we really talking? Are we trying to get to a point? It's difficult, right? We don't have a COP - a place for COP next year - so how are we going to agree on such an important issue as climate change, as loss and damage, as adaptation, and everything?"
It's Eastern Europe's turn to host the event next year according to U.N. rules.
The decision must be unanimous among the countries in the region, but negotiations have been stuck amid war in Ukraine and other regional tensions.
The president of the current COP summit, Sultan Al-Jaber from the current host nation the UAE is pushing them to make a selection.
"In accordance with the principle of rotations among regional groups, the president of COP29 would come from the Eastern European states, and for COP30 from the Latin America and Caribbean states. The Latin America and Caribbean states have nominated Brazil to host COP30, I encourage the Eastern European states to accelerate and finalize their consultations on this matter to ensure a timely decision."
The UAE has said it has no intention of hosting for a second time but it also remains in play as a possibility, though some participants like Dallas Conyers don't want that to happen.
"We can't do it here again. As comfortable and as beautiful as this venue is, as great as the food and faith people have made the food and vegan options here, it is not morally and ethically comfortable to host COP29 here."
The event could take place at the U.N. climate body's headquarters in Bonn, Germany, with the president coming from a smaller eastern European country that doesn't have the infrastructure to host it.
But that would require a change of the current rules that do not allow having one country hold the presidency, while another stages the event.
