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COP29: How nations plan to raise money to respond to climate change
Negotiators are fighting over three big parts of the money issue: how big the numbers are, how much is grants or loans, and who pays.
COP29 to produce full draft on climate-change funding for developing nations
The chair of the COP29 climate change meeting, Azerbaijan, says it will present a full draft text, which sets out the funds to be given to developing countries tackling climate change.
Money to respond to climate change is key to UN talks in Baku. Nations are finding ways to raise it
Big money to respond to climate change is key to the United Nations talks underway in Azerbaijan BAKU, Azerbaijan — Just as a simple lever can move heavy objects, rich nations are hoping another kind of leverage — the financial sort — can help them come up with the money that poorer nations need to cope with climate change.
At UN climate talks, farmers argue for a share of money dedicated to fighting climate change
Small farmers get less than 1% of climate finance, according to a report last year from the Climate Policy Initiative. At the same time, food systems — all the processes involved in making, shipping and disposing of food — account for about a third of planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions.
Big Money to Respond to Climate Change Is Key to UN Talks in Baku. How Can Nations Raise It?
It involves a complex package of grants, loans and private investment, and it's becoming the major currency at annual United Nations climate talks known as COP29. But poor nations worry they’ll get the short end of the lever: not much money and plenty of debt.
Nations are seeking ways to raise the big money needed to tackle climate change
Just as a simple lever can move heavy objects, rich nations are hoping another kind of leverage — the financial sort — can help them come up with the money that poorer nations need to cope with climate change.
Indigenous peoples, impacted by climate change, raise alarm about the planet at COP29
Antumalen Ayelen Antillanca Urrutia, 26, of Huapi Island, Chile, from the Mapuche Huilliche community, poses for a photo during the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024. in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
COP29: A Crossroads For Climate Action
The climate crisis is all around us today, now. Against this backdrop, COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, feels like a critical ...
COP29 struggles to crack climate finance puzzle
As time runs out on COP29, negotiators are stalled on the same questions that brought them to Baku: How much money to raise ...
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COP29: The Gap Between Political Action and the Accelerating Pace of Catastrophic Climate Change Is Terrifying
World leaders are failing to commit to the dramatic action required to prevent devastating climate change, reports Mike ...
A New Era of Climate Geopolitics is Playing Out at COP29
In the opening hours of the conference, John Podesta, President Joe Biden’s climate envoy, offered a blunt assessment that ...
5 deceptive ways the fossil fuel industry is trying to co-opt climate talks
Even as the fossil fuel industry avoids paying its fair share of the mounting costs of fossil fuel-driven climate harms, ...
Is climate change making tropical storms more frequent? Scientists say it's unclear
An unusual cluster of typhoons in the West Pacific and a series of powerful hurricanes in the Atlantic are raising questions ...
Soccer At COP29: Clubs Unite For Climate Action
Top flight soccer clubs have committed to increasing climate action with the creation of a new alliance, launched during ...
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World leaders aim to shape Earth's future at COP29 climate change summit
COP29, being held in Baku, Azerbaijan, involves representatives and negotiators from 197 nations who have signed on to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. It runs Monday ...
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Georgian Deputy Minister tells COP29 high-tech agro-food systems “key in combating climate change”
Nino Tandilashvili, the Georgian Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection and Agriculture, on Wednesday highlighted the ...