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While 2024 is likely the hottest on record, progress at the annual climate conference is up in the air
[28] [29] On 10 and 11 October, Azerbaijan hosted the annual Pre-COP meeting to initiate discussions ahead of COP29. The conference, centered around the motto "Strengthening Ambitions and Ensuring Action", opened with COP29 President-designate Mukhtar Babayev, COP28 President Sultan Al Jaber, and UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed. [30]
The United Nations Climate Change Conferences are yearly conferences held in the framework of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). They serve as the formal meeting of the UNFCCC parties – the Conference of the Parties (COP) – to assess progress in dealing with climate change, and beginning in the mid-1990s, to negotiate the Kyoto Protocol to establish legally ...
A last-minute $300bn climate finance deal has been secured at Cop29 after a dramatic day of prolonged negotiations, which saw walkouts by vulnerable nations and protests echoing through the ...
Thousands of diplomats, scientists and leaders arrived in Baku, Azerbaijan to negotiate the thorniest topic of climate negotiations: money
In January 2025, President Lula appointed Brazilian diplomat André Corrêa do Lago as the COP's president. [6] The decision was praised by Brazilian climate activists given Lago's history of leading climate justice discussions, among other things. [7] Lago is a veteran diplomat at Itamaraty (Brazil's Foreign Ministry) and a longtime climate ...
An official with Azerbaijan's Presidency of next week's United Nations COP29 climate summit appeared to offer to facilitate talks about new fossil fuel deals ahead of the conference, according to ...
The COP conference has been held annually (except for the year 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic) [1] since the first UN climate agreement in 1992. The event is intended for governments to agree on policies to limit global temperature rises and adapt to impacts associated with climate change. [2]