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COP29 Azerbaijan: What’s at stake at the 2024 global climate summit?

The UN climate summit kicks off in Baku as activists such as Greta Thunberg label the event a ‘greenwash conference’.

Al Jazeera

COP29 opens in Azerbaijan for talks centred on climate funding

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

Al Jazeera

A ‘Cop of peace’? How can authoritarian, human rights-trashing Azerbaijan possibly host that?

The ‘theme’ chosen for Cop29 must be some kind of dark joke. This summit, like those before it, is a mere act of greenwashing, says climate crisis campaigner Greta Thunberg

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Climate summit faces trillion-dollar showdown as Cop29 opens in Baku

Governments are gathering in Azerbaijan on Monday for talks on the climate that will test wealthy nations' commitment to funding poorer ones bearing the brunt of global warming. But concerns over Baku's human rights record and deep ties to fossil fuels have cast a heavy shadow over the UN’s crucial…

Radio France Internationale

COP29 Opens With Trump Climate Withdrawal Looming

The COP29 climate talks open Monday in Azerbaijan, under the long shadow cast by the re-election of Donald Trump, who has pledged to row back on the United States' carbon-cutting commitments.

International Business Times

The COP29 climate talks are about to kick off in Baku, Azerbaijan. Here’s what to expect

The next major United Nations meeting on climate change, known as COP29, is about to get underway in Baku, Azerbaijan. These annual meetings are the key international summits as the world attempts to address the unfolding climate crisis.

The Conversation

'Most important in years': key climate summit kicks off

Australia's climate change minister is urging his counterparts to adopt ambitious emissions targets as world leaders discuss the future for a warming globe.

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Five things to look for at the Cop29 climate summit

While 2024 is likely the hottest on record, progress at the annual climate conference is up in the air

The Independent UK

Activists look to Britain for climate leadership as Trump’s win casts long shadow over crucial UN talks

COP29: New controversies threaten to derail one of the most important climate summits in recent history. Stuti Mishra reports from Baku, Azerbaijan

The Independent UK

Cop29 could change the financial climate for the world’s wealthy polluters

This week’s summit will focus on paying for the costs of global heating – and much more money is needed

The Guardian - UK

Global boiling, mass flooding and Trump: 10 big talking points for Cop29

Record carbon emissions, melting ice sheets and the return of the former US president will all be under the spotlight at this week’s climate summit

The Guardian - UK

Azerbaijan is the host of the UN's climate conference, shining a spotlight on the petrostate

Diplomats from across the world will descend on the Azerbaijani capital of Baku for the annual climate summit, known as COP29, to discuss how to avoid the increasing threats from climate change in a place that was one of the birthplaces of the oil industry

The Independent UK

Top Climate Change Official Caught on Camera Making Secret Fossil Fuel Investment Deals

A senior official at the COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan was caught on camera discussing potential fossil fuel investment deals.

Latin Times

‘A total waste of time’: why Papua New Guinea pulled out of Cop29 and why climate advocates are worried

Country’s foreign minister says UN climate summits have produced ‘no results’ as Pacific nation takes the rare step of withdrawing from upcoming Cop29

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Nigeria at COP29: Five items to put on the climate agenda

The world’s efforts to address climate change and its effects have been the subject of discussion for almost three decades at the annual Conference of Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

The Guardian - UK

Cop16 ends in disarray and indecision despite biodiversity breakthroughs

Conservation summit agrees to global levy on drugs from nature’s genetics, but developing nations furious at unmet funding promises

The Guardian - UK

Spain’s apocalyptic floods show two undeniable truths: the climate crisis is getting worse and Big Oil is killing us

The devastating flooding should spur this month’s Cop29 climate conference to press for immediate action, not look away, writes Guardian global environment editor Jonathan Watts

Radio France Internationale

Climate summit in Azerbaijan criticised over fossil fuel influence

UN climate summits are at risk of “undue corporate influence" and "fossil fuel industry capture”, two corruption watchdogs warned, as oil and gas producer Azerbaijan prepares to host the Cop29 in November.

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International Business Times

Papua New Guinea To Boycott 'Waste Of Time' UN Climate Summit

Papua New Guinea on Thursday declared a boycott of next month's UN climate summit, branding the global warming negotiations a "waste of time" full of empty promises from big polluters.

Latin Times

COP16: Can Colombia Lead The Global Fight Against Climate Change?

The country's efforts to become a leader in the area are being undermined by armed groups operating in the country

Radio France Internationale

Cote d'Ivoire has lost 'nearly 80 percent of its forest and wildlife cover'

How can we protect wild animals when the world's forest cover continues to shrink? This is just one of the many issues under discussion at the Cop16 biodiversity summit in Cali, Colombia. In West Africa, certain emblematic species such as the elephant are at risk of extinction. The head of…

The Guardian - UK

Cop16 at a glance: the big issues that will define talks at Colombia’s UN summit

Delegates from 196 countries are discussing progress in preserving biodiversity. So what are the sticking points?

International Business Times

Little Progress At Key Meet Ahead Of COP29 Climate Summit

A key meeting ahead of the UN COP29 climate summit ended Friday in frustration with countries making little progress over how to fund a new finance deal for poorer nations.

International Business Times

World Can't 'Waste Time' Trading Climate Change Blame: COP29 Hosts

The hosts of the upcoming UN climate summit urged countries on Thursday not to "waste time" assigning blame over global warming and instead find common ground in tackling the problem.

International Business Times

UN Biodiversity Summit In Colombia Aims To Turn Words Into Action

Two years after a landmark UN-brokered deal to protect nature from a massive wave of destruction, delegates will gather at a new COP in Colombia in late October to assess their progress.

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