Are All These U.N. Climate Talks Doing Any Good?
The current talks “simply cannot deliver the change at exponential speed and scale, which is essential to ensure a safe climate landing for humanity,” a number of influential figures, including former U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, wrote in a letter to the United Nations as the Baku summit was underway.
Here’s what to know about the new funding deal that countries agreed to at UN climate talks
In the wee hours Sunday at the United Nations climate talks, countries from around the world reached an agreement on how rich countries can cough up the funds to support poor countries in the face of climate change.
Developing nations blast $300 billion COP29 climate deal as insufficient
Countries at the COP29 summit in Baku adopted a $300 billion a year global finance target on Sunday to help poorer nations cope with impacts of climate change, a deal its intended recipients criticised as woefully insufficient.
“No one country has enough money to deal with the climate crisis”
As the 29th United Nations climate change conference concluded, former Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry shared his concerns and optimism on the climate crisis at a recent John F. Kennedy Jr.
Compromise deal reached at COP29 climate talks for $300 billion a year to poor nations
United Nations climate talks adopted a deal to inject at least $300 billion annually in humanity's fight against climate change, aimed at helping developing nations cope with the ravages of global warming in tense negotiations.
COP29 negotiators agree on funding deal for poor nations facing climate crises
United Nations climate negotiators agreed on a funding formula to help developing countries cope with the effects of climate change early Sunday in Azerbaijan after two weeks of intense negotiations.
Nations at UN climate talks agree on $300B a year for poor countries in a compromise deal
It’s not near the full amount of $1.3 trillion that developing countries were asking for, but it’s three times a deal of $100 billion a year from 2009 that is expiring.
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Contentious COP29 deal casts doubt over climate plans
A bitterly-fought climate finance deal reached at COP29 risks weakening emissions-cutting plans from developing countries, ...
Why UN climate change summits are ‘fundamentally flawed’
Cop29, the 29th annual climate conference in Azerbaijan, came to an end on Sunday, and in its wake have come doubts about the ...
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As Countries Reel From a Dizzying Climate Summit, All Eyes Turn to Plastic Negotiations
The sun has set on the 29th United Nations climate summit (COP29), which brought representatives from nearly 200 nations ...
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UN talks in disarray as a draft deal for climate cash is rejected by developing nations
negotiators from rich and poor nations were huddled in one room Saturday during overtime United Nations climate talks ...
Poor Nations Fail to Extract $1.3 Trillion Annually from Rich Countries at U.N. Climate Change Conference (opinion)
They are instead promised $300 billion, but the Trump administration will not likely pony any international climate finance.
When climate change upends sacred rituals, the faithful adapt
Rising temperatures and melting glaciers are altering the ways humans pray and threatening the existence of sacred traditions ...
UN climate negotiations were a major bummer
Maybe it was the host of the UN climate summit in Azerbaijan this month calling oil and gas a “gift of God.” Or the US, the ...
Climate action only reduces demand for fossil fuels. Why are we ignoring supply?
Fossil fuels are key to climate change, but they are largely absent from COP agreements. The biggest achievement came in 2023 ...