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?
"Let us ask ourselves, what if this was my home, my family? This shared sense of humanity should inspire us to work towards tangible, transformative outcomes over the coming days, ensuring that COP29 concludes with meaningful progress.
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: 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.
What to expect as the UN’s COP29 climate change summit begins in Azerbaijan
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: 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,
Cop29 live: day 4 of summit begins as leaders warned planet heating on course for 2.7C
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Milei’s COP29 Team Leaves as Trump Tensions Hang Over Summit
Argentina’s President Javier Milei’s negotiating team has left Azerbaijan less than four days into the COP29 climate summit, ...
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Refugee activists at COP29 call for funding and support to withstand climate threats
Forcibly displaced people attending the global climate summit in Azerbaijan have been calling on decision makers to address gaps in climate finance that are leaving displaced communities ill-equipped ...
Climate Leaders Call For Renewed Hope and Ambition at TIME100 COP29 Impact Dinner
Climate leaders gathered at TIME’s COP29 Impact Dinner in Baku, Azerbaijan for a celebration of the TIME100 Climate ...
COP29: Development bank financing pledge gives summit early boost
Negotiators see $120 bln pledge from banks as good start Tough negotiations lie ahead for broader finance deal Country ...
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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World leaders begin plenary speeches at COP29 climate summit
Among others, UN Secretary General António Guterres is expected to speak. Representatives from almost 200 states are ...
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COP29: Mum carries baby 10,000km across land from Ghana to Azerbaijan to say 'my son's future is at stake'
The little boy's mother Adjoa told The Irish Mirror they travelled over land and by plane from Ghana to Azerbaijan because: ...