Brad Plumer is reporting from Azerbaijan, where the annual U.N. climate summit got underway this week. This week, diplomats and heads of state from nearly 200 countries gathered in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, for COP29, the climate summit held by the United Nations.

This year's U.N. climate summit - COP29 - is being held during yet another record-breaking year of higher global temperatures, adding pressure to negotiations aimed at curbing climate change.

Developed country parties had been proposing some kind of income or wealth criteria to include countries like China, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea or Qatar -- something that developing countries have strongly resisted.

At least 1,773 coal, oil, and gas lobbyists are attending the climate talks, according to the Kick Big Polluters Out coalition. What do these conferences accomplish?

As Azerbaijan introduces its vibrant tea culture to COP29 attendees, scientists are studying how to save it from climate change.

The 2024 summit in Azerbaijan comes amid fresh reports showing that global warming levels are accelerating, bringing more intense climate-related disasters and an increased demand for funding to mitigate and protect communities from the effects of climate change.

Cop29: Ask our climate correspondent anything amid summit in Azerbaijan - ASK ME ANYTHING: Our climate correspondent Stuti Mishra is on hand to answer your questions as the UN’s 29th annual climate summit in Baku brings together world leaders,

T he future of nations that have banded together to fight climate change, which will endanger part of the human race, has already proven to be a failure. On paper, the US, part of