Climate Talks End With a Bitter Fight and a Deal on Money
The financing plan, which calls for $300 billion per year in support for developing nations, was immediately assailed as inadequate by a string of delegates.
From a US$300 billion climate finance deal to global carbon trading, here’s what was – and wasn’t – achieved at the COP29 climate talks
The petroleum-laden dust has settled on this years United Nations climate summit, COP29, held over the past fortnight in Baku, Azerbaijan. Climate scientists, leaders, lobbyists and delegates are heading for home.
Here's what to know about the new funding deal that countries agreed to at UN climate talks
In the wee hours Sunday at the United Nations climate talks, countries from around the world reached an agreement on how rich countries can cough up the funds to support poor countries in the face of
COP29 negotiators agree on funding deal for poor nations facing climate crises
United Nations climate negotiators agreed on a funding formula to help developing countries cope with the effects of climate change early Sunday in Azerbaijan after two weeks of intense negotiations.
Nations at UN climate talks agree on $300B a year for poor countries in a compromise deal
It’s not near the full amount of $1.3 trillion that developing countries were asking for, but it’s three times a deal of $100 billion a year from 2009 that is expiring.
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Concern as climate talks stall on fossil fuels pledge
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Crackdown in Azerbaijan: COP29 Host Country Arrests Climate Activists & Journalists Ahead of Talks
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After a disappointing COP29, here's how to design global climate talks that might actually work
Many people long involved in global climate negotiations see the annual United Nations COP climate talks as fundamentally ...
Taliban administration officials to attend UN climate conference in Azerbaijan
By Mohammad Yunus Yawar, Charlotte Greenfield and Gloria Dickie KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan Taliban officials will attend a ...
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Gov. Inslee in Azerbaijan for global climate talks
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is spending the week in Azerbaijan, an oil-producing nation between Russia and Iran, for the ...
At climate talks, painstaking diplomacy and then anger
After three sleepless nights of back and forth among negotiators, all it took to seal a contentious global deal on climate ...
At UN climate talks, “sewage” beer from Singapore highlights water scarcity and innovations
In the sprawling pavilion section of the United Nations climate talks, where countries, nonprofits and tech companies use big ...
Climate talks in Azerbaijan head into their second week, coinciding with G20 in Rio
United Nations talks on getting money to curb and adapt to climate change resume Monday with fresh hope that negotiators and ...
At UN climate talks, farmers argue for a share of money dedicated to fighting climate change
Small farmers get less than 1% of climate finance, according to a report last year from the Climate Policy Initiative. At the ...
China’s influence grows at COP29 climate talks as US leadership fades
Few say the conference was a resounding success. But neither was it a failure. The central task of the conference, known as COP29, was to come up with funding to help developing countries become more ...