COP29: Push for agreement on a new climate finance deal ... - UN News
3 days ago · UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell delivers remarks in Baku, Azerbaijan, at the opening of COP29. Behind him is an image of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Beryl, which struck his home island of Carriacou, Grenada, this past July. Following another year of record-high global heat and extreme weather events, UN climate chief ...
‘Pay up or humanity will pay the price’, Guterres warns at COP29 ...
2 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 …
1 day 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.
Climate talks open with calls for a path away from the 'road to …
3 days ago · In Baku, Azerbaijan the two-week United Nations climate negotiations, called COP29, got right to the major focus of striking a new deal on how many hundreds of billions — or even trillions — of dollars a year will flow from rich nations to …
COP29: Guterres urges countries to ‘get serious’ on loss ... - UN News
2 days ago · UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on Tuesday for countries to step up contributions to a financial mechanism to assist developing countries affected by climate change. Mr. Guterres made the appeal in remarks to a high-level dialogue on loss and damage funding during the COP29 UN climate change conference in Baku, Azerbaijan.
COP29 Agrees International Carbon Market Standards - UNFCCC
2 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 ...
COP29 Climate Talks Focus on Financing - The New York Times
1 day ago · Reporting from the COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan. Nov. 13, 2024, 7:27 a.m. ET. The language of world leaders speaking on Tuesday at the United Nations climate summit was diplomatic, but ...
Daily Update COP29 - Tuesday 12 November - wmo.int
COP29 High-Level Event 10:45-12:15 (Baku): Adverse Impacts of Climate Change on Water Basins: With 3.6 billion people facing water shortages and projections showing this number could exceed 5 billion by 2050, the event will discuss the intensifying impact of global warming on water resources and the urgent need for action to safeguard the ...
UN Climate Change Conference Baku - November 2024 - UNFCCC
1 day ago · 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 …
Pay up or face climate-led disaster for humanity, UN chief warns COP29 …
2 days ago · In his keynote address at the COP29 climate summit, where nearly 200 nations are negotiating global action on climate change, President Ilham Aliyev described his country as a victim of a "well ...