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The campaign website cop29.com was purchased by Global Witness instead of Azerbaijan's COP29 team and became a focal point of controversy. Backed by notable figures such as actor Jude Law and former UN climate chief Mary Robinson , the site advocated for fossil fuel companies to fund climate damages, highlighting their $4 trillion earnings in ...
Azerbaijan, host of this year's U.N. climate change talks, hopes to upgrade its emissions reduction target in time for the event, the incoming president of the COP29 summit said on Thursday.
FILE PHOTO: A view shows a sign of the COP29 United Nations Climate Change Conference with a backdrop of the cityscape in Baku, Azerbaijan October 31, 2024. (REUTERS/Aziz Karimov/File Photo)
Here are some of the takeaways from the COP29 summit held in Azerbaijan's capital of Baku: CASH FOR CLIMATE REMAINS TIGHT. The summit's main agenda item - setting a new annual target for global ...
During the Bonn Climate Change meeting in May 2023, Azerbaijan and Armenia also announced their interest in hosting COP 29. The Eastern Europe Group had difficulties in identifying a potential host due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. [88] Bulgaria and Armenia dropped their bids to host COP29 leading to Azerbaijan being the sole host bid in ...
COP29 is being hosted in Baku in 2024, probably in November; it will be the third oil-producing country in a row to host the conference. [6] [22] Cooperative Mechanisms under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement may be discussed. [23] Some have criticised that the country was chosen to host COP29 and say that environmental activists are repressed. [24]
— COP29 Azerbaijan (@COP29_AZ) November 18, 2024. With the difficult negotiations in Baku, confidence in the multilateral Cop process started to waver over the last few days, with high-profile ...
Participants walk by an entrance of COP29, the U.N. Climate Change Conference venue, in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, on Nov. 10, 2024. / Credit: Dominika Zarzycka/NurPhoto via Getty Images