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COP29: 5 Critical Developments To Watch At This Year’s Climate Summit
COP29, this year's biggest environmental conference, is now underway. Here is how leaders from around the world are coming together to advance global climate efforts.
COP29 climate summit begins. Will it be the last for the U.S.?
As delegates from nearly 200 countries gather for a major international summit on climate change, they're confronting a new era of uncertainty for the U.S. under a second Trump administration.
COP29: Here are the key issues at the UN climate summit
As COP29 aims to set a much higher climate financing target for the years ahead, wealthy nations insist the money cannot come entirely from their budgets.
Trump’s shadow looms at climate summit: what COP29 could deliver
Nations gather to discuss who should pay to prevent the worst effects of climate change. But Donald Trump’s US election win might dampen commitments.
Select countries back more funding for climate action at COP29 summit
A coalition of world leaders from industrialized nations and climate-vulnerable countries at the UN Climate Change Conference in Baku called for more ambitious climate funding on Wednesday. "Trillions of dollars are required.
Absenteeism Shadows COP29: A Chess-Like Climate Summit
The COP29 climate talks in Baku, Azerbaijan are taking place without key world leaders, akin to a chess championship rather than a star-studded event. Major polluting countries' leaders are absent, highlighting a lack of political urgency.
COP29: Little progress made since last climate summit, UN special rapporteur says
COP29 is underway in Baku, Azerbaijan. Global News Morning spoke with one of the experts in attendance, Elisa Morgera, the UN Special Rapporteur on Climate Change and Human Rights, about what's at stake at this year's climate summit.
What can we expect at the COP29 Climate Conference?
With a climate-denialist re-elected as US president and another petrostate host (following Dubai in 2023)—hopes for ambitious outcomes at the 29th UN Climate Change "Conference of the Parties" (COP29) in Baku,
Activists at COP29 spend weeks planning demos. But they can feel stifled by rules and restrictions
In the nosebleed seats of a nearly-empty Baku Olympic stadium coated with a layer of dust, activists used a giant banner to ...
Cop29 live: can the climate summit find a way to raise $1tn a year?
Join us for all the latest developments from day 4 of the climate summit in Azerbaijan.   06:50 “Make polluters ...
What are they saying at the COP29 climate summit?
World leaders are speaking at the U.N. climate summit in Baku on Wednesday. "Once again, we emphasize that if this conference ...
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COP29 Climate Summit: Guterres urged faster progress, as CO2 emissions to hit record high - as it happened
Live Page editor. A text and video journalist based in London, Stephen is a former Reuters bureau chief in Jerusalem. He was ...
COP29 hosts accused of detaining climate defenders
Natalia Nozadze from Amnesty International told BBC News that since Azerbaijan was announced as the host country for COP29 in November last year it has become harder to oppose the government.
Geopolitics Overshadow COP29 Talks on Climate Cash, as Argentina Walks Away
BAKU (Reuters) -Countries at the COP29 summit tried to make progress on how to raise up to $1 trillion in climate finance for the world's most vulnerable, as political tensions overshadowed the talks ...
COP29 host Azerbaijan promoted fossil fuel deals ahead of climate summit, NGO says
An official with Azerbaijan's Presidency of next week's United Nations COP29 climate summit appeared to offer to facilitate ...
COP29: Nauru unveils ‘groundbreaking’ citizenship by investment scheme for climate action
The 'Nauru Economic and Climate Resilience Citizenship Programme' was announced at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan on Thursday.