Spotlight: COP29
The 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan November 11 to 22. This is the 29th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), commonly known as COP29. Mukhtar Babayev will preside over COP29; Samir Nuriyev heads the Organising Committee.
Climate change funding talks stuck ahead of COP29 summit
Countries cannot agree on the size of a global funding bill to help the developing world fight climate change - let alone how...
COP29 climate hosts say they’ll keep expanding fossil fuels
The incoming president of the COP29 UN climate summit in Azerbaijan says his country will keep increasing fossil fuel production "in parallel" with...
Major world economies seek to halt new private sector coal financing
World's major economies looking to finalise a plan ahead of UN climate summit to halt new private sector funding for coal projects.
Azerbaijan hoping to cut emissions with $2 billion green energy investment
Azerbaijan, which is hosting COP29 this year, is hoping to raise the share of renewables across its energy sector to almost a third...
OECD: Developed countries materially surpassed their USD 100 billion climate finance commitment in 2022
29 May 2024 - Developed countries provided and mobilised USD 115.9 billion in climate finance for developing countries in 2022, exceeding the annual...
COP28 president urges countries to set plans for fossil fuel transition
By Gloria Dickie LONDON (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates, host of last year’s COP28 climate summit, called on Tuesday for governments to...
Three COP summit hosts unite to raise climate ambitions
By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates, host of last year’s COP28 climate summit, and Azerbaijan and Brazil, the hosts...
Including energy leaders made COP28 climate summit more meaningful, says Jaber
DUBAI (Reuters) -COP28 President Sultan al-Jaber said on Monday that bringing the energy sector to the table at the U.N. climate summit that...
Brazil is formally elected host country for COP 30
The announcement was made official during the plenary session of COP 28 in Dubai. The event will take place in Belém, Pará, for...
