The COP29 climate talks are about to kick off in Baku, Azerbaijan. Here's what to expect
The next major United Nations meeting on climate change, known as COP29, is about to get underway in Baku, Azerbaijan. These annual meetings are the key international summits as the world attempts to address the unfolding climate crisis.
COP29 talks struggle in a year of climate stress and global bickering
This year's U.N. climate summit is struggling to focus minds on the health of the planet, with turbulent geopolitics, a confrontational host and the reelection of U.S. climate skeptic Donald Trump stealing the limelight.
UN Trade Pushes COP29 Baku Climate Initiative
The Baku Initiative for Climate Finance, Investment, and Trade (BICFIT) launched at COP29, the 29th UN Climate Change Conference, to bring together
Exclusive-Fragile Countries Make $20 Billion Climate Finance Push at COP29, Letter Says
A group of conflict-affected countries is pushing at COP29 to double financial aid to more than $20 billion a year to combat the natural disaster and security crises facing their populations, a letter seen by Reuters showed.
COP29 climate talks grapple with trillion-dollar task
Developing countries need at least $1 trillion per year by the end of the decade to cope with climate change, economists told U.N. talks in Baku, where early efforts to reach a finance deal risk being overshadowed by diplomatic rows.
Climate finance: who is being asked to pay what at COP29?
"You owe us!" screamed a protest banner at the COP29 summit in Azerbaijan, where negotiations over how much rich nations most responsible for climate change should pay poorer ones are
Azerbaijan’s leader takes a wrecking ball to his own climate talks as calls rise for total ‘overhaul’
From the moment the US election results rolled in, climate leaders knew Donald Trump would be a blow to the COP29 talks in ...
Nuclear Power Was Once Shunned at Climate Talks. Now, It’s a Rising Star.
At last year’s climate conference in the United Arab Emirates, 22 countries pledged, for the first time, to triple the ...
Frustration grows at fossil fuel influence and structure of UN climate talks. Some call for reform
The conference’s chief negotiator said current talks — aimed at striking a multi-hundred billion dollar deal on financing a ...
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Gore says 'absurd' to hold UN climate talks in petrostates
US vice president Al Gore told AFP Friday it was "absurd" for petrostates such as Azerbaijan to host UN climate talks, saying ...
Climate summit takes off in Baku with low-key presence from India
India seeks more money in adaptation fund to support the cause of vulnerable communities, including Sunderbans ...
Argentina’s Javier Milei withdraws delegation from UN climate talks in Baku
Right-wing president Javier Milei has withdrawn Argentina ’s delegation from the Cop29 UN climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan.
As COP29 begins in Baku, local experts say climate change is causing the Caspian sea to shrink
As world leaders gather in Baku, Azerbaijan, for COP29, the impact of climate change can be seen up close. The Caspian sea, ...
Climate finance are not ‘investment goals’, says India at COP29 summit in Baku
India emphasizes at COP29 in Baku that climate finance must be provided by developed countries to support developing nations.
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COP29 Bulletin Day 4: Azerbaijan’s climate fund on ice and Europe hits back at Aliyev criticism
Azerbaijan postpones the launch of a controversial climate fund and gets embroiled in a diplomatic spat with the EU ...