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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Fiona Harvey in Baku

Poorer nations must be transparent over climate spending, says Cop29 leader

An oilfield near Baku
An oilfield near Baku, Azerbaijan. Oil and gas make up more than 90% of the country’s exports. Photograph: Grigory Dukor/Reuters

Poor countries must demonstrate clearer accounting and transparency to back up their calls for trillions of dollars of climate finance, the president of global climate negotiations has said.

Mukhtar Babayev, the ecology minister of Azerbaijan, who will lead the Cop29 UN climate summit in November, urged governments in developing countries to draw up reports showing their progress on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, and their spending on the climate crisis.

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