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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 · Nov 20, 2024

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 · Nov 20, 2024

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 · Nov 20, 2024

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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.

The Conversation · Nov 20, 2024

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 · Nov 20, 2024

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 · Nov 20, 2024

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 · Nov 20, 2024

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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 · Nov 19, 2024

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 · Nov 19, 2024

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 · Nov 19, 2024

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.

Radio France Internationale · Nov 19, 2024

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 Guardian - UK · Nov 19, 2024

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 Independent UK · Nov 19, 2024

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.

The Conversation · Nov 18, 2024

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Evening Standard · Nov 18, 2024

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.

UN Climate Talks Focus On Funding For Developing Countries

United Nations climate talks in Baku aim to secure additional climate financing for developing countries and drive global climate action.

The Guardian - US · Nov 18, 2024

World’s 1.5C climate target ‘deader than a doornail’, experts say

Scientists say goal to keep world’s temperature rise below 1.5C is not going to happen despite talks at Cop29 in Baku

Evening Standard · Nov 18, 2024

Pressure on ministers to break Cop29 deadlock as UN climate talks enter week two

UK Energy Secretary Ed Miliband arrived in Baku, Azerbaijan on Sunday to join other government ministers for the second week of the UN climate summit.

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The Guardian - UK · Nov 17, 2024

The Observer view: the Cop summit is foundering, we need urgent action not more hot air

The grim negotiations in Baku, Azerbaijan, have shown the need for reform of the UN annual global climate talks

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 · Nov 17, 2024

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 · Nov 16, 2024

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

Latin Times · Nov 15, 2024

Texas Oil Field Ranked 'No. 1 Worst Polluting Site in the Entire World' in New UN Report

An oil field in Texas has been named the most pollutive site in the world at the United Nations climate talks in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Radio France Internationale · Nov 15, 2024

Africans push food systems and climate justice at Cop29

This week's Spotlight on Africa dives into Cop29’s critical discussions on climate change – focusing on food systems, green energy funding and who should pay for climate disasters. With talks underway in Baku, Azerbaijan, negotiators and experts are grappling with solutions to the growing crisis.

UN Climate Talks Process Under Scrutiny At COP29

COP29 in Baku addresses UN climate negotiations reform, challenges with fossil fuel influence, and major greenhouse gas emitters in cities like Shanghai.

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