A bitterly-fought climate finance deal reached at COP29 risks weakening emissions-cutting plans from developing countries, observers say, further raising the stakes for new national commitments due early next year.

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Contentious COP29 deal casts doubt over climate plans

Experts say the summit outcome lacks details, making it challenging to secure financing for Southeast Asia and South Asia.

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Is Asia’s climate funding hope fading over ‘unclear’ Cop29 pledges?

COP29 finance deal is ‘a betrayal of the world’s most vulnerable, of the Paris Agreement, and of common sense,’ says climate activist Iskander Erzini Vernoit - Anadolu Ajansı

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COP29 deal: ‘Betrayal of the most vulnerable’ or what was ‘politically achievable’?

A bitterly-fought climate finance deal reached at COP29 risks weakening emissions-cutting plans from developing countries, observers say, further raising the stakes for new national commitments due early next year. The U.N. climate talks in Azerbaijan, which concluded last Sunday, were considered crucial to boosting climate action across huge swathes of…

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MANILA, Philippines – Delegates walked away from the recently concluded United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) with a $300-billion new climate finance goal that will be mobilized by developed countries. The deal is imperfect, even COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev admits. Poor nations and members of civil society had been largely disappointed with the final deal. Aside from the new finance goal, COP29 reached agreements on a framework on…

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The Green Report: COP29 is over. What now?

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Contentious COP29 Deal Casts Doubt Over Climate Plans

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Activists say the climate agreement effectively signed away the 1.5-degree Celsius target—”our only real chance to safeguard humanity’s future.”   The post The “Worst COP” Concludes With a “Heartbreaking” Climate-Finance Deal appeared first on The Nation.

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The “Worst COP” Concludes With a “Heartbreaking” Climate-Finance Deal

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“This [summit] was a disaster for the developing world. It is a betrayal of both people and the planet by rich countries that claim to take climate change seriously. Rich countries have promised to 'mobilize' some funds in the future, rather than provide them now. The check has been mailed. But lives and livelihoods in vulnerable countries are being lost now.” The words of Mohamed Adow, director of the Power Shift Africa think tank, are explanat…

“Questo [vertice] è stato un disastro per il mondo in via di sviluppo. È un tradimento sia delle persone che del pianeta da parte dei paesi ricchi che affermano di prendere sul serio il cambiamento climatico. I paesi ricchi hanno promesso di ‘mobilitare’ alcuni fondi in futuro, piuttosto che fornirli ora. L'assegno è stato spedito. Ma le vite e i mezzi di sussistenza nei paesi vulnerabili si stanno perdendo ora”. Le parole di Mohamed Adow, diret…

Contentious COP29 deal casts doubt over climate plans

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