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Australia hoped hosting a Cop climate summit was a done deal. But one nation still stands in the way

Despite a diplomatic push from Chris Bowen and Anthony Albanese, Turkey won’t back down on its bid to host Cop31

The Guardian - AU

Friendly fire: a nuclear push by allies at COP29 poses a sticky problem for Albanese

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese didn’t see this coming. At the global COP29 climate talks in Baku, the Australian government was indirectly criticised by two allies, the United States and the United Kingdom, over its refusal to sign onto the goal of tripling nuclear power globally by 2050.

The Conversation

France summons Azerbaijan ambassador over President Aliyev's 'unacceptable' remarks at Cop29

France has summoned Azerbaijan's ambassador to Paris over 'unacceptable remarks' made by the country's President Ilham Aliyev last week at the Cop29 climate talks he is hosting in Baku.

Radio France Internationale

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Cop29 president faces pressure over LSE climate academic detained in Azerbaijan

Dozens of fellow academics have called for the release of the London School of Economics professor Dr Gubad Ibadoghlu detained in Azerbaijan.

Evening Standard

Why Vegas’s Monza and Baku similarities aren’t good news for Ferrari and McLaren in 2024

Based on previous results on similar circuits, Ferrari and McLaren are the pre-race favourites as Formula 1 heads to Las Vegas, but two key factors could yet trip them up.

Autosport

Why Vegas’s Monza and Baku similarities aren’t good news for Ferrari and McLaren

Based on previous results on similar circuits, Ferrari and McLaren are the pre-race favourites as Formula 1 heads to Las Vegas, but two key factors could yet trip them up.

Motorsport

Is Cop29 a waste of time? Not if rich countries commit to paying for climate damage in developing world

“An ambitious new climate finance goal” should be the priority of every nation at the latest round of international climate negotiations in Baku, Azerbaijan. That’s according to Simon Stiell, who heads the United Nations process for negotiating an agreement to limit global heating.

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Why big oil and gas firms might want the Paris agreement to survive

ExxonMobil chief executive Darren Woods has urged president-elect Donald Trump to not take the US out of the Paris agreement on climate change. “We need a global system for managing emissions”, he said in an interview at the annual UN climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan.

The Conversation

UK takes key role at UN climate talks as pressure mounts to reach finance deal

The Cop29 presidency of Azerbaijan asked both the UK and Brazil to ensure the delivery of ‘a balanced set of negotiated outcomes’ at the Baku summit.

The Independent UK

Cop29: campaigners say talks are ‘reaching point of real emotion’ – as it happened

‘Talks aren’t just about figures on paper, they’re about people’s lives’, says Climate Action International as talks reach critical final days

The Guardian - UK

Europe's Pivotal Role In Bid To Strike COP29 Climate Deal

The European Union is key to a deal being done at UN climate talks in Baku by Friday -- viewed as a bridge both with China and poorer nations -- after climate sceptic Donald Trump's triumph in the US elections.

International Business Times

US politics has long shaped global climate action and science – how much will Trump’s opposition matter?

US president-elect Donald Trump has indicated that he will again withdraw his country from the Paris agreement and perhaps the UN climate process altogether. The uncertainty this has created was palpable in the negotiation rooms and hallways of the Cop29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, where I wrote this.

The Conversation

Hundreds of lobbyists for industrial farming attend Cop29 climate summit

Nearly 40% of food sector lobbyists have travelled to Baku as part of countries’ delegations

The Guardian - UK

G20 backs climate finance deal but faces fossil fuel backlash

Activists and a key negotiating group at the stalled COP29 climate talks on Tuesday cautiously welcomed a G20 leaders statement backing a finance deal for poorer countries, but some slammed a missing reference to fossil fuels.

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The Guardian - UK

Cop29 live: Slashing methane emissions is ‘our emergency brake’, UN says – as it happened

Cop29 presidency announces new drive to cut methane emissions from waste dumps as G20 reaffirms transition from fossil fuels

The Independent UK

Big money to respond to climate change is key to UN talks in Baku. How can nations raise it?

Big money to respond to climate change is key to the United Nations talks underway in Azerbaijan

The Conversation

The Moana effect: how small island developing states are bringing their struggle against climate change to the world

Walking through the delegation pavilion at the UN climate summit, Cop29, in Baku, Azerbaijan, the Moana blue Pacific pavilion grabbed my attention more than any other.

Evening Standard

Cop29 president calls on G20 nations to put climate at centre of discussions

Mukhtar Babayev urged governments to ‘work together’ to solve key political issues causing a deadlock at the UN climate talks in Baku.

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UN Climate Talks In Baku Face Funding Challenges

Limited progress on funding commitments at UN climate talks in Baku; optimism for breakthroughs.

The Independent UK

As talks in Baku cross the halfway point, nations are no closer to a goal on cash for climate action

Distractions were bigger than deals in the first week of United Nations climate talks, leaving a lot to be done, especially on the main issue of money

The Guardian - UK

Tory Foreign Office minister used official visit to Azerbaijan to promote party donor’s business

Leo Docherty posed on one of Lord Bamford’s JCB diggers in Baku when the company wanted to ‘raise their profile’ in the country

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