COP29 Begins With Climate Finance

The group demanded an explicit commitment in any final deal on finance at COP29 to double financing to help them adapt to climate change.

The annual UN climate summit has kicked off in Baku, Azerbaijan, with lofty goals, but many global leaders missing.

Following another year of record-high global heat and extreme weather events, UN climate chief Simon Stiell told negotiators at COP29 in ...

At COP29, trillions of dollars are riding on whether major emerging economies like China will have to step up climate aid.

UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell delivers remarks in Baku, Azerbaijan, at the opening of COP29. Behind him is an image of the ...

The last time countries set a climate finance goal was 2009, at COP15 in Copenhagen, where wealthy nations committed to provide $100 billion ...

Negotiators agree that trillions are needed to help lower-income countries adapt and cope, but not on who should pay.

BAKU, Azerbaijan — Soaring rhetoric, urgent pleas and pledges of cooperation contrasted with a backdrop of seismic political changes, ...

Countries at the COP29 summit tried to make progress on how to raise up to $1 trillion in climate finance for the world's most vulnerable, ...

Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) provide estimates for collective climate financing through to 2030 The Fund for responding to Loss and ...

Report urges $6.5 trillion annual investment in climate action by 2030 to meet targets and avoid future costs.

13 November: Today at the UN climate summit COP29 in Baku, a draft text of the new climate finance target was published.

GENEVA – As the 29th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) begins in Baku, ...

Countries at COP29 are in no mood to fork over large increases in traditional public funds.

Co-Chairs publish draft text for the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG), described as workable basis for discussion.

This year, Azerbaijan has been selected as the Presidency of the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29), to be hosted in Baku this November.

Low-income countries need at least $1 trillion a year to manage climate change. Donald Trump's victory just made that more difficult, ...

The 2024 summit in Azerbaijan comes amid fresh reports showing that global warming levels are accelerating, bringing more intense ...

The 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) opens next week in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. The summit takes place between ...

Delegates from nearly 200 countries join as negotiators seek increase in $100bn-a-year target for developing nations.