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By Nick Perry, Laurent Thomet and Shaun Tandon The world approved a bitterly negotiated climate deal Sunday but poorer nations most at the mercy of worsening disasters dismissed a US$300 billion a year pledge from wealthy historic polluters as insultingly low. The closing plenary of COP29, in Baku, Azerbaijan, on November 24, 2024. Photo: COP29 […]
Getty Images Richer countries have promised to raise their funding to help poorer countries fight climate change to a record $300bn (£238bn) a year, but the deal is facing recriminations from the developing world. The talks at the UN climate summit COP29 in Azerbaijan ran 33 hours late, and came within inches of collapse. The […]
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The contentious deal reached at the UN climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, commits developed nations to paying at least $300 billion a year by 2035 to help developing countries reduce their greenhouse gas emissons and prepare for disasters related to global warming. Source link
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The financing plan, which calls for $300 billion per year in support for developing nations, was immediately assailed as inadequate by a string of delegates. Source link
The deal also lays the groundwork for next year’s climate summit, to be held in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil, where countries are meant to map out the next decade of climate action. The summit cut to the heart of the debate over financial responsibility of industrialised countries – whose historic use of fossil fuels […]
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The world approved a bitterly negotiated climate deal Sunday but poorer nations most at the mercy of worsening disasters dismissed a $300 billion a year pledge from wealthy historic polluters as insultingly low. After two exhausting weeks of chaotic bargaining and sleepless nights, nearly 200 nations banged through the contentious finance pact in the early […]
Simon Stiell, United Nations climate chief, left, Mukhtar Babayev, COP29 President, center, and Yalchin Rafiyev, Azerbaijan’s COP29 lead negotiator, talk ahead of a plenary session at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) BAKU, Azerbaijan — Countries agreed on a deal to inject at least $300 billion […]