The existing funding target of $100bn expires at the end of 2025. Countries are keen to agree something at this COP rather than leave it to next year, when president-elect Donald Trump is expected ...

BAKU, Azerbaijan (CMC) — United Nations Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell has described the new finance goal agreed at the Conference of Parties (COP 29) to the UN Framework ...

BAKU, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Countries agreed at the U.N.'s COP29 climate conference to spend $300 billion on annual climate finance. Here are some ways of understanding what that sum is worth: In ...

The urgency of dealing with climate change has never been clearer. But this was always going to be a tricky COP. It took place in Azerbaijan, a petrostate, and was awash in fossil fuel interests.

Image: Samoa's minister of natural resources and environment speaks to reporters after walking out of COP negotiations The least developed countries like Mozambique and low-lying island nations ...

However, Chandni Raina, a representative for India's COP 29 delegation, slammed the deal. "We are disappointed in the outcome which clearly brings out the unwillingness of the developed country ...

The the U.N. climate body agreed to add the issue to future summit agendas. This year's COP was the third in a row to be held in a fossil fuel producing country, with both the OPEC secretary ...

BAKU, Azerbaijan — More than a day past the scheduled end of the U.N. Climate Change Conference, negotiators from almost 200 nations approved a deal to marshal the vast sums of money that poorer ...

Countries with large energy markets, including the United States, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and the United Kingdom (UK) backed the COP presidency’s ambitious energy ...

COP PROCESS IN DOUBT Despite years of ballyhooed climate agreements, countries raised alarms about the fact that both greenhouse gas emissions and global temperatures are still rising. Countries ...

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