Will COP29 deliver the trillions needed to tackle the man-made climate …
23 hours ago — The latest round of UN climate negotiations, COP29, opened this past Monday in Baku, Azerbaijan, following a year that broke multiple extreme heat records and saw widespread climate-driven chaos – from wildfires to destructive floods and hurricanes – hit nearly every corner of the world. A major increase in financial commitments to assist vulnerable countries in mitigating and adapting to ...
COP29: Digital tech and AI can boost climate action, but ... - UN News
17 hours ago — The COP29 Declaration on Green Digital Action recognises the importance of digital technologies to mitigate and adapt to climate change. The objectives in the declaration underscore how digital innovations can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and provide life-saving tools to inform and warn communities.
As talks in Baku cross the halfway point ... - Associated Press News
4 hours ago — The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. ... Activists participate in a demonstration for climate finance during the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Saturday, Nov. 16, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) ... but he called oil and gas — chief causes of climate change a “gift ...
COP29: Shanghai, Tokyo, New York, Houston spew ... - Associated Press News
2 days ago — BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Good or bad, the United Nations climate negotiations process itself became the focus of the international talks that aim to curb warming from coal, oil and natural gas. Environmental advocates released reports Friday decrying fossil fuel industry influence at the climate talks called COP29.
‘Pay up or humanity will pay the price’, Guterres warns at COP29 ...
4 days ago — 12 November 2024 Climate and Environment. UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday that leaders gathered in Baku for the COP29 Climate Action Summit must take immediate steps to cut emissions, safeguard people from climate chaos, and “tear down the walls to climate finance” in response to the “masterclass in climate ...
At UN climate talks, nations big and small get chance to bear …
4 days ago — Updated 3:42 AM PST, November 13, 2024. BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — More than two dozen world leaders are delivering remarks at the United Nations’ annual climate conference Wednesday, with many hard-hit nations detailing their nations’ firsthand experience with the catastrophic weather that has come with climate change.
COP29: UN climate talks 'no longer fit for purpose' say experts
The United Nations' COP climate talks are "no longer fit for purpose" and need an urgent overhaul, key experts including a former UN secretary general and former UN climate chief have said. In a ...
COP29 Agrees International Carbon Market Standards - UNFCCC
5 days ago — COP29 Agrees International Carbon Market Standards. The following is a transcript of remarks made at a press conference on Day 2 of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan on 12 November 2024. Remarks are listed in order that they were made: Yalchin Rafiyev, COP29 Lead Negotiator, Simon Stiell, UN Climate Change Executive ...
UN Climate Change Conference Baku - November 2024 - UNFCCC
Unlocking the vast benefits of bold climate action: NDC events at COP29. A recent report from UN Climate Change shows that current national climate plans (NDCs) are still dangerously off-track to avert the crippling effects of climate change on every country and every economy.
COP29 Updates - UNFCCC
1 day ago — UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell addressed the official opening of COP29 today, making a passionate plea for urgent, global cooperation on climate change. "We mustn’t let 1.5 slip out of reach. Even as temperatures rise, the implementation of our agreements must claw them back," said Stiell.