Landmark $300bn for poorer nations in COP29 climate deal

Recriminations after COP29 agrees deal on $300bn for poorer nations

A deal is salvaged at the UN summit as poorer nations are promised record funding for climate action.

Poorer nations deride COP29 offer of $250bn to tackle climate change

Independent expert group says amount falls short of $390bn a year needed by 2035 to deal with effects of global warming

World - Financial Times - Yesterday

Cop29: Climate finance deal agreed but talks remain deeply divided

The deal was met with long applause, cheering, whistling and embraces but few are happy with it.. Marching in silence with their arms crossed high, activists from around the world protested the ...

World - The Guardian - 10 hours ago

UN climate summit’s $300bn deal slammed as ‘stage-managed’

Poorer countries concede in fight with rich world and fossil fuel producers over funds to deal with global warming

Business - Financial Times - 16 hours ago

Poorer nations need $1tn a year by 2030 in climate finance, top economists find

Study says funding to cope with climate breakdown needed five years earlier than expected. Poor countries need $1tn a year in climate finance by 2030, five years earlier than rich countries are ...

World - The Guardian - November 14

Cop29 CEO filmed agreeing to facilitate fossil fuel deals at climate summit

Elnur Soltanov recorded speaking with fake oil and gas group that asked for deals in exchange for sponsoring talks. The chief executive of Cop29 has been filmed apparently agreeing to facilitate ...

World - The Guardian - November 8

Cop29 climate finance deal hits fresh setback as deadline looms

Outcry after draft text contains only an ‘X’ instead of setting $1tn funding goal to support developing countries. Cop29 climate summit – live updates Hopes of a breakthrough at the ...

World - The Guardian - 3 days ago

Developing countries urged to reject ‘bad deal’ as Cop29 climate talks falter

Talk grows of a walkout from poor countries in response to ‘unacceptable’ and ‘insulting’ finance proposal. Developing countries were being urged by civil society groups to reject “a bad deal” at ...

World - The Guardian - Yesterday

COP29 Climate Talks Get a Deal on Money, but Only After a Fight

Some countries were outraged over what they saw as deep flaws in the plan, which calls for $300 billion per year in support for developing nations.

World - The New York Times - 11 hours ago

Cop29 agrees $1.3tn climate finance deal but campaigners brand it a ‘betrayal’

Deep divisions remain after high-stakes talks end with agreement to help developing world shift to low-carbon economy. Rich and poor countries concluded a trillion-dollar deal on the climate crisis ...

World - The Guardian - 9 hours ago

Rich nations raise COP29 climate finance offer in bid to break deadlock

Developed nations should pay $300 billion a year by 2035 to help poorer countries deal with climate change, according to a new draft deal from U.N. climate talks published early on Sunday, after an ...

Nations at COP29 climate talks agree on $300 billion a year for poor countries

The $300 billion will go to developing countries who need the cash to wean themselves off coal, oil and gas.

Countries must set aside differences and agree climate finance deal, says Cop29 negotiator

Jochen Flasbarth called on Cop29 delegates to press on as world faces increasing crises and drop in solidarity. Governments meeting to forge a global settlement on climate finance must get over ...

World - The Guardian - 6 days ago

At UN climate talks, a draft of the deal gives little clarity on climate cash for developing nations

World - Yahoo News - 3 days ago

Shell Wins Appeal in Landmark Climate Case in the Netherlands

A lower court had ordered the company to cut emissions by 45 percent by 2030, but the oil giant argued that a single firm should not be hit with arbitrary pollution-reduction requirements.

Business - The New York Times - November 12

GOP victories threaten Democrats' landmark climate legislation

With Republicans securing control of the House, Senate and White House in the election, they are poised to claw back major legislation Democrats have passed to fight climate change. Chief in the ...

Politics - The Hill - November 15

The Guardian view on UN climate talks: rich and poor nations can strike a win-win deal | Editorial

At Cop29 the global south needs to unite for sustainable growth, leveraging resources and negotiating transformative climate finance pacts. More than a century of burning coal, oil and gas has ...

World - The Guardian - November 15

Nations at UN climate talks agree on $300B a year for poor countries to curb and adapt to warming in a compromise deal

World - ABC News - 10 hours ago

COP29 Climate Talks Focus on Financing

Negotiators agree that trillions are needed to help lower-income countries adapt and cope, but not on who should pay.

Science - The New York Times - November 13

Climate COPs and the art of the deal

The Olympics of negotiations offer lessons for corporate life

World - Financial Times - 4 hours ago

Trump expected to limit and dismantle landmark Biden climate policies

President-elect Donald Trump's victory clears the way for him to deliver on his campaign promises to dismantle many of President Biden's marquee climate policies. CBS News national environment ...

Shell wins landmark climate case against green groups in Dutch appeal

A court throws out a ruling that the gas and oil giant cut its greenhouse gas emissions.

Shell defeats landmark climate ruling ordering cut in carbon emissions

Oil and gas company had challenged 2021 ruling that it must reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 45% by 2030. Shell has won its appeal against a landmark climate judgment by a Dutch court, which in ...

World - The Guardian - November 12

Dutch appeals court overturns landmark climate ruling against Shell

A Dutch appeals court has overturned a landmark ruling that ordered energy company Shell to cut its carbon emissions by net 45% by 2030 compared to 2019 levels

World - ABC News - November 12

Biden touts his climate legacy during landmark visit to Amazon rainforest

President Joe Biden highlighted his climate legacy in Brazil on Sunday during a visit to the Amazon rainforest, the first by a sitting U.S. president.

COP29 climate summit begins today. Will it be the last for the U.S.?

As delegates from nearly 200 countries gather for a major international summit on climate change, they're confronting a new era of uncertainty for the U.S. under a second Trump administration.

COP29, the U.N. conference on climate change, underway in Azerbaijan

The United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP29, is underway in Azerbaijan at a time when the U.S. is producing more oil than any country and is expected to produce more when President-elect ...

Trump's climate policy looms over COP29

A major climate summit kicked off in Azerbaijan on Monday amid uncertainty over U.S. commitments to combatting global warming. President-elect Donald Trump has said he will exit the Paris Climate ...

Biden Officials Try to Reassure COP29 Climate Talks

Negotiators at the summit in Azerbaijan fear that the return of Donald Trump will sap momentum for global climate action.

Science - The New York Times - November 14

At COP29, Keir Starmer Announces the UK’s Ambitious Climate Targets

The prime minister announced more ambitious climate targets, charting a very different course from the United States, which is expected to roll back its energy transition plans.

World - The New York Times - November 12

COP29 hosts accused of detaining climate defenders

Human rights groups have called for a review of how countries are chosen to host the COP climate summits.

Democrats’ Message at COP29 Climate Talks: Don’t Panic

American officials are seeking to assure the world that U.S. climate action won’t end with the return of Donald Trump as president.

World - The New York Times - November 16

COP29 Climate Talks in Baku, Azerbaijan, Are Teetering

Western countries are confronting demands for trillions of dollars to fight climate change and to cope with its worsening effects.

World - The New York Times - 2 days ago

Will China step up if Trump takes a step back on climate change?

How future talks will play out if another superpower comes to the fore, just as the US steps back

‘Protect the climate for whom?’: Palestinians highlight Gaza at Cop29

Advocates and officials argue that consequences of Israeli siege are inextricably linked to tackling the climate crisis. As countries negotiate over climate finance, Palestinian officials and ...