ISTANBUL (AA) – After two weeks of tense negotiations, COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan’s capital, concluded with an agreement on a new climate finance target: $300 billion annually by 2035. Despite the agreement, many developing nations, including Cuba and India, slammed the $300 billion annual pledge, calling it “too little, too late.” ...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has urged the developed countries to fulfill their financial commitments made during the COP27 and COP 28. Addressing the UN Climate Change Conference COP29 in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku, Sharif said that financial support should be grant based for developing countries. “I str...
LONDON (AA) – The climate financing needs of low and middle-income countries, which are projected to exceed $2 trillion per year by 2030, are among the key topics at the 2024 UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) which began Monday in Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku. COP29, which runs until Nov. 22, will be a platform for discussing […]...
ISTANBUL (AA) – COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev has said that the UN’s environmental program shows that current policies implemented across the globe will result in global warming of 3 degrees Celsius. “We must be totally honest. The UN Environment Program shows that current policies are leading us to 3 degrees Celsius of warming,” Babay...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The UN has called on global leaders to prioritize climate action and financial reform, emphasizing the economic and human cost of inaction. “An ambitious climate finance goal is not charity—it’s self-interest for every nation,” Simon Stiell, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change ...
ISTANBUL (AA) — The 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) commenced in Baku on Monday, bringing together world leaders, policymakers, and activists with a renewed commitment to addressing intensifying climate crises. Running until Nov. 22, the event will focus on global warming, climat...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The 29th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) will kick off in the Azerbaijani capital Baku on Monday, aiming to address escalating climate challenges. Leaders from around the world are set to gather in Baku for the event, running until Nov. 22. “With global temperatures […]...
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AA) – Azerbaijan has invited Armenia to the 29th UN climate change conference (COP29) to be held in Baku in November. “We have the infrastructure to host approximately 40,000 guests in one day. Invitations were sent to all the heads of states in the world. More than 50 heads of states and governments […]
Paris, France – AFP Azerbaijan has named minister and former oil executive Mukhtar Babayev as president of the COP29 climate conference to be held in November in Baku, an official told AFP on Friday. The nomination makes 2024 the second year in a row that global climate talks are to be led by a man […]
