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Vol 65 No 23

Published 15th November 2024


High stakes but low ambitions at Baku’s geopolitical climate summit

Africa’s bargaining chips at COP29 are ‘green ores’, and trading its forests, grasslands and shorelines as carbon sinks

After a year of weather disasters and the hottest average temperatures on record, cash will dominate negotiations at the UN Conference of the Parties (COP29) climate summit from 11-22 November in Baku. Negotiations over climate finance between rich and developing economies will be tough, probably quite fraught as they were earlier in the year when states were trying to get a common position on new funding targets.

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