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29 November 2024

  • Anneliese Dodds, development minister

    UK increases World Bank contribution, boosting climate finance prospects

    Government puts forward £1.98bn in funding over three years, an increase of about 40% on last pledge

26 November 2024

  • The Flame Towers in Baku, Azerbaijan<br>View of The Flame Towers and Caspian sea as seen Baku Boulevard at sunset day in Baku, Azerbaijan

    Backroom deals and betrayal: how Cop29’s late $300bn deal left nobody happy

    While an agreement on climate finance was eventually reached, many poorer countries were outraged

25 November 2024

  • Mukhtar Babayev

    I’m glad we got a deal at Cop29 – but western nations stood in the way of a much better one

    Mukhtar Babayev
  • Australia’s place in front of empty chairs at Cop29 in Baku

    As Cop29 wraps up and the climate crisis gathers pace, Australia’s dash for gas is confounding

    Bill Hare

24 November 2024

  • COP29 - Plenary Finals - Closing, Baku, Azerbaijan - 23 Nov 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Bianca Otero/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock (14938362e) COP29 President MUKHTAR BABAYEV claps with the rest of the secretariat of the UNFCCC at the end of the COP20. After a long and drawn out statement and deliberation at last an agreement and pass was put through though some divisions are still in place. This concludes the COP29, the annual two week summit on climate change. Coined as Finance COP, it was the focus point but also wins and losses both financially and can compromise. COP29 - Plenary Finals - Closing, Baku, Azerbaijan - 23 Nov 2024

    The Guardian view on Cop29: poor-world discontent over a failure of rich countries to deliver

    Editorial: A rushed final text in Baku strains trust between nations, as inadequate climate finance commitments leave vulnerable countries calling for justice

  • Developing countries condemn 'insufficient' Cop29 deal – video

    Deep divisions remain after high-stakes talks end with agreement to help developing world shift to low-carbon economy

    • Cop29’s new carbon market rules offer hope after scandal and deadlock

    • Cop29: Climate finance deal agreed but talks remain deeply divided – as it happened

    • Cop29 agrees $1.3tn climate finance deal but campaigners brand it a ‘betrayal’

23 November 2024

  • A group of young people with a cardboard banner denouncing fossil fuels, wave their hands, showing 'Pay Up' written on their palms

    Row over who will pay $1tn climate fund drags Cop29 talks past the deadline

  • Saudi Arabia placecard

    Revealed: Saudi Arabia accused of modifying official Cop29 negotiating text

  • people hold up signs calling for an end to fossil fuels

    Environment weekly
    Huge election year worldwide sees weakening commitment to act on climate crisis

  • US climate envoy John Podesta and deputy Sue Biniaz head into an elevator at Cop29 in Baku, Azerbaijan

    Cop29: wealthy countries agree to raise climate finance offer to $300bn a year

22 November 2024

  • Activists demonstrate against a draft deal for curbing climate change at Cop29 in Baku, Azerbaijan.

    Developing countries urged to reject ‘bad deal’ as Cop29 climate talks falter

    Talk grows of a walkout from poor countries in response to ‘unacceptable’ and ‘insulting’ finance proposal
  • Activists participate in a demonstration for climate finance at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Friday, Nov. 22, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

    Cop 29: new draft text criticised as ‘totally unacceptable and inadequate’ – as it happened

    Text ‘decides’ on $250bn for developing countries by 2035 – but faces criticism from African Group of Negotiators

    • ‘It’s really an honour’: people of oil-rich Azerbaijan welcome climate summit

    • Cop29: $250bn climate finance offer from rich world an insult, critics say

    • UAE urges countries to honour fossil fuels vow amid Cop29 impasse

21 November 2024

  • Activists at the Cop29 summit.

    Poor nations may have to downgrade climate cash demands, ex-UN envoy says

  • A demonstrator holds a sign that reads ‘climate justice now’ during Cop29

    Cop29: UN chair ‘so sick’ of Saudi Arabia’s defence of fossil fuels – as it happened

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