A New Era of Climate Geopolitics is Playing Out at COP29
In the opening hours of the conference, John Podesta, President Joe Biden’s climate envoy, offered a blunt assessment that felt almost like an apology. “It’s clear that the next administration will try to take a U-turn and erase much of this progress,
COP29: The selfish case for climate finance
The UN climate summit’s final official day is Friday and, even assuming the event follows tradition by running over well into the weekend, there is not much time left for nations to reach a deal on the critical global climate finance target.
Cop29 live: frustration at slow progress on climate finance agreement
Campaign group WWF says there’s a ‘need for parties to get together and work through this’ as experts call for $1tn to reach developing countries each year
COP29: A Crossroads For Climate Action
The climate crisis is all around us today, now. Against this backdrop, COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, feels like a critical moment.
COP29 struggles to crack climate finance puzzle
As time runs out on COP29, negotiators are stalled on the same questions that brought them to Baku: How much money to raise for climate action in developing countries, and how to raise it. The main point of contention,
Slow progress on climate finance fuels anger as COP29 winds down
Mukhtar Babayev, Azerbaijan’s COP29 president, called on delegates to show more urgency. “People have told me that they are concerned about the state of the negotiations,” Babayev told delegates Monday.
Time ticks down for negotiators at UN climate talks to find deal to curb warming and its effects
With time running down, negotiators at the United Nations annual climate talks on Wednesday returned to the puzzle of finding ...
Exclusive: UN moves to unlock stuck climate financing for Afghanistan
Plagued by drought and deadly floods, Afghanistan has been unable to access UN climate funds due to political and procedural ...
Money to respond to climate change is key to UN talks in Baku. Nations are finding ways to raise it
BAKU, Azerbaijan — Just as a simple lever can move heavy objects, rich nations are hoping another kind of leverage — the ...
Negotiators are urged to get down to business as climate talks in Baku enter second week
United Nations climate talks resumed Monday with negotiators urged to make progress on a deal that could see developing ...
Australia, Turkey in 2026 UN climate summit hosting standoff
Australia and Turkey are in a standoff over which country is better suited to host United Nations climate change talks in ...
U.S. COPing Out Of Global Climate Leadership?
U.S. envoys to COP29, such as John Podesta, a senior Democratic operative who served under the Clinton, Obama, and Biden ...
Protesters gather at UN climate talks in global day of action as progress on a deal slows
Hundreds of activists formed a human chain outside one of the main plenary halls at the United Nations climate summit on what ...
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The “Dark Joke” of Having a Climate Summit in Azerbaijan
Baku, Azerbaijan —Azerbaijan is the land of fire, or so the Zoroastrian legend goes. Its supply of combustible fuel has long ...
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 ...
Earth’s biggest polluters aren’t sending leaders to UN climate talks in a year of weather extremes
The major focus of the negotiations is climate finance, which is rich nations trying to help poor countries pay for ...
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Shubh makes history as first Indian music artiste to be appointed as Global Climate Brand Ambassador for United Nations
In a historic move, acclaimed Punjabi music sensation Shubh has been named the inaugural Global Ambassador for the UNFCCC ...
Brazil leads new international effort against climate lies
Brazil and the United Nations launched a new international effort to combat disinformation on climate change. They announced ...