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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
    My negotiating team tried in vain to push up support for the global south. Lessons must be learned before the next summit in Brazil, says Mukhtar Babayev, president of Cop29

24 November 2024

  • 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
  • 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

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

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    Developing countries condemn 'insufficient' Cop29 deal – video

  • The stage at the Cop29 climate summit

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

23 November 2024

  • Mukhtar Babayev, the Cop29 president, bangs a gavel during the closing plenary.

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

  • Cop29 president Mukhtar Babayevat at the closing plenary meeting

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

  • 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

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

  • 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

    Rich country budgets are stretched amid inflation, Covid and Ukraine war, Mary Robinson tells Cop29
  • 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

    Former climate minister for Canada reacts after Saudi delegation said it ‘will not accept any text that targets any specific sectors, including fossil fuels’
  • A man stands in front of the Cop29 logo

    Cop29 climate finance deal hits fresh setback as deadline looms

    Outcry after draft text contains only an ‘X’ instead of setting $1tn funding goal to support developing countries
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