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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.
What are they saying at the COP29 climate summit?
"Our citizens are faced with unprecedented climate shocks, we need more resources to prepare to respond in time, in order to save lives and livelihoods and to help people and communities rebuild after disaster. We cannot focus so much on 2050 that we forget 2024."
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.
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,
Who’s at the U.N. Climate Summit? Here Are 29 Years of Guests, Visualized.
The U.N.’s annual climate conference has swelled over three decades, with governments, fossil fuel interests and others vying ...
Argentina withdraws delegates from climate summit as Milei heads for Mar-a-Lago
Argentine delegates at the COP29 United Nations climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, have been ordered to withdraw from ...
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COP29 Climate Summit: Guterres urged faster progress, as CO2 emissions to hit record high
Live Page editor. A text and video journalist based in London, Stephen is a former Reuters bureau chief in Jerusalem. He was ...
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President of Country Hosting UN Climate Summit Defends Fossil Fuels, Slams Media and Green ‘Hypocrisy’
Azerbaijan's president defended fossil fuels at COP29, criticizing media narratives and asserting that natural resources are ...
At Climate Summit, Top U.S. Advisor Says ‘We Won’t Revert Back’
Biden's Climate Adviser John Podesta blended pragmatism and persistence in a statement emphasizing the vital stakes of a ...
Climate Summit, in Early Days, Is Already on a ‘Knife Edge’
Negotiators agree that trillions are needed to help lower-income countries adapt and cope, but not on who should pay.
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 ...
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Leveraging Short-Lived Climate Pollutants: India's Unseen Path to Stability
Amid worsening pollution in New Delhi, experts at COP29 discuss India's potential in reducing short-lived climate pollutants like methane. By addressing SLCPs, India could experience immediate ...
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Azerbaijan accused of ramping up repression of critics ahead of hosting UN climate summit
President Ilham Aliyev and his administration are accused by human rights organizations of spearheading an intensifying ...
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Trump’s power plays overshadow global climate summit
Donald Trump isn’t at COP29, but his rapid-fire personnel moves to dismantle Joe Biden’s climate legacy are being felt there.