COP29 gets boost from Rio as G20 leaders back scaling up ... - UN News
11 hours ago · The G20 communiqué comes as the clock ticks down on COP29, which is set to wrap up this Friday in the Azerbaijan capital, Baku. The complex negotiations on new and significantly scaled-up funding for loss and damage and accelerated clean energy goals are moving slowly, as some countries dig into their positions while waiting for others to pull ...
Policy Watch: At COP29 and G20, leaders face calls to direct more ...
8 hours ago · At this week’s COP29 and G20 leaders’ meetings, there will be choices to be made. ... Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider ...
COP29 Bulletin Day 8: G20 disappoints COP29 finance talks
18 hours ago · G20 disappoints COP29 on finance. At a press conference in Baku yesterday, COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev sent a cry for help unlocking finance talks to the G20 leaders summit in Rio de Janeiro. “The world is waiting to hear from them”, he said, adding “we want them to provide clear mandates to deliver at COP29 – this is their chance ...
Money to respond to climate change is key. Here's how nations …
17 hours ago · “G20 Leaders have sent a clear message to their negotiators at COP29: do not leave Baku without a successful new finance goal,” United Nations climate secretary Simon Stiell said. “This is an essential signal, in a world plagued by debt crises and spiraling climate impacts, wrecking lives, slamming supply chains and fanning inflation in ...
COP29: G20 sends hope on finance but mitigation nears collapse
1 day ago · But a Reuters report boosted hopes for a breakthrough, saying that negotiators of the G20 communique “agreed to a text mentioning developing nations’ voluntary contributions to climate finance, stopping short of calling them obligations, according to two diplomats”. If that’s agreed by world leaders in Brazil, climate ministers in Baku ...
Negotiators are urged to get down to business ... - Associated Press News
1 day ago · Wopke Hoekstra, EU climate commissioner, speaks during a news conference at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits) ... “We urge them to use the G20 meeting to send a positive signal of their commitment to addressing the climate crisis. We want them to provide clear mandates to ...
Summit host Azerbaijan warns COP29 cannot succeed without G20 …
1 day ago · BAKU, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Leaders of the world's biggest economies must send a clear signal on the need to tackle global warming, COP29 climate summit host Azerbaijan said on Monday. The plea came ...
G20 talks in Rio reach breakthrough on climate finance, sources say
2 days ago · U.N. officials urge G20 leaders to break COP29 stalemate. Wealthy nations asking more countries to foot climate bill. Climate accord may only get trickier with return of Trump.
Message From Executive Secretary Simon Stiell Ahead of G20
3 days ago · The following is a message from UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) as world leaders head to Rio de Janeiro for the G20 Summit next week. Photo above is available for download here (please credit: UN Climate Change | Kiara Worth). As G20 ...
COP29: G20 teams given ‘marching orders’ to seal a finance deal …
15 hours ago · COP29: What's happening on day eight of the UN climate conference? A press conference is held by the COP29 Presidency and UN Climate Change to provide an update on the status of negotiations ...
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