Azerbaijan: Draft deal on climate finance triggers criticism, runs COP29 climate summit into overtime
Baku, Azerbaijan - 11, 2024 A draft released late on Friday at the COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, left most climate activists and developing countries disappointed. Climate talks in Baku, which were originally scheduled to end on Friday,
New proposal awaited in Baku on climate finance deal
A fresh draft of a climate pact unveiled Thursday at COP29 failed to break an impasse between nations, with negotiators racing against the clock to broker a trillion-dollar finance agreement.
Wealthy Countries Back Raising COP29 Climate Deal to $300 Billion, Sources Say
The European Union, United States and other wealthy countries at the COP29 climate summit have agreed to raise their offer of a global finance target to $300 billion per year by 2035, sources told Reuters on Saturday.
EU Offers To Raise Rich Countries' Climate Pledge To $300 Bn: COP29 Negotiators
The European Union is ready to raise to $300 billion an offer by wealthy nations for annual climate funding to poorer countries in a bid to break a deadlock in COP29 talks in Azerbaijan, two negotiators said.
COP29 draft deal proposes wealthy nations give $250 billion in climate finance
A new draft finance deal delivered to harried negotiators in Baku on Friday – the final scheduled day for the UN climate talks that have been under way for the past two weeks – proposes rich countries commit $250 billion a year to help vulnerable nations cope with our warming planet and to accelerate the global switch to renewable energy.
COP29 proposal calls on rich countries to pay $250 billion per year in climate financing
A new draft proposal issued on Friday at COP29 in Azerbaijan has called for developing countries to pay $250 billion annually to climate finance poorer nations.
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