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COP29: Clashes over cash are set to dominate the climate conference

The focus is on finance at the UN climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, this month, but countries are a long way from any kind of consensus

By Madeleine Cuff

4 November 2024

COP29 will begin on 11 November in Baku, Azerbaijan

Aziz Karimov/Getty Images

In just a few days’ time, thousands of delegates from almost every country on Earth will arrive in Baku, Azerbaijan, for the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference.

The meeting is a chance for countries to come together and thrash out the international response to rising global temperatures, against a backdrop of record-breaking temperatures, devastating storms, flooding, heatwaves and droughts.

These climate summits, known as Conferences of the Parties (COPs), are notorious for being a world unto…

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