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Evening Standard
Rachel Vickers-Price

Ed Miliband says Cop29 deal agreed at ’11th hour for the climate’

Ed Miliband (centre) speaks with US climate envoy John Podesta (right) at the Cop29 summit in Azerbaijan (Rafiq Maqbool/AP/PA) - (AP)

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has called a financial package for developing nations a “critical 11th-hour deal at the 11th hour for the climate” as the United Nations environmental conference drew to a close.

But climate groups called the 300 billion dollar (£239.5 billion) funding agreement, designed to help developing nations combat the impacts of global warming, a “drop in the ocean” of already-rising seawaters.

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