November 1, 2024--Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Later this month, the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference will take place at Baku, Azerbaijan. This year's event, known as the Conference of the Parties that signed the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP29, will confront an inconvenient truth: Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from less-wealthy nations (the Global South) continue to grow much faster than CO2 emissions are being reduced by the world's wealthiest nations (the Global North).