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UN Climate Talks Begin With Nations Detailing Extreme Weather

Amid the United Nations' annual climate summit on Wednesday, nations from across the globe detailed extreme weather they face.

The Boston Globe · 1d

Earth’s biggest polluters aren’t sending leaders to UN climate talks in a year of weather extremes

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told world leaders who did show up that the world is seeing “a master class in climate destruction" in a year virtually certain to be hottest on record.

Voice of America · 2d

Biggest name world leaders missing at UN climate talks, others fill the void

But 2024's climate talks are more like the International Chess Federation world championship, lacking recognizable names but big on nerd power and strategy. The top leaders of the 13 largest carbon dioxide-polluting countries will not appear.

PBS · 1d

Leaders of the world’s biggest polluters are skipping UN climate talks

The climate talks often have the star power of a soccer World Cup, but many big names and powerful countries are noticeably absent. That includes the top leaders of the 13 largest carbon dioxide-polluting countries.

Fox 5 San Diego · 1d

Biggest name world leaders missing at United Nations climate talks, but others try to fill the void

World leaders are converging Tuesday at the United Nations annual climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan although the big names and powerful countries are noticeably

climate summit, COP29

Phys.org on MSN · 1d

COP29: Who pays for climate action in developing nations—and how much—becomes more urgent

This year's United Nations climate summit, the Conference of the Parties (COP29) which starts in Azerbaijan this week, has been dubbed the "finance COP."

Forbes · 20h

COP29: 5 Critical Developments To Watch At This Year’s Climate Summit

COP29, this year's biggest environmental conference, is now underway. Here is how leaders from around the world are coming together to advance global climate efforts.

Reuters on MSN · 1d

What are they saying at the COP29 climate summit?

BAKU (Reuters) -World leaders are speaking at the U.N. climate summit in Baku on Tuesday where United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has told them to "pay up" to prevent climate-led humanitarian disasters.

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Argentina withdraws delegates from climate summit as Milei heads for Mar-a-Lago

Argentine delegates at the COP29 United Nations climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, have been ordered to withdraw from ...

‘Test for rich countries’: Cop29 summit opens with stark warnings and fear of Trump

Thousands of diplomats, scientists and leaders arrived in Baku, Azerbaijan to negotiate the thorniest topic of climate ...

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Leaders worldwide meeting at the United Nations annual Climate Change Summit

Leaders worldwide are in Azerbaijan for the United Nations Climate Change Summit. Much of the talk has been centered around ...

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The United Nations faces uncertainty as Trump returns to US presidency

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At COP29 summit, nations big and small get chance to bear witness to climate change

Many nations at the summit on Wednesday detailed their firsthand experience with the catastrophic weather that has come with ...

Who’s at the U.N. Climate Summit? Here Are 29 Years of Guests, Visualized.

The U.N.’s annual climate conference has swelled over three decades, with governments, fossil fuel interests and others vying ...

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United Nations summit gives Indigenous groups voice on nature conservation decisions

CALI, Colombia — After two weeks of negotiations, delegates on Saturday agreed at the United Nations conference ...

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Oil and gas are gift of god, Azerbaijan president tells climate summit

Oil and gas are a “gift of god”, Azerbaijan ’s president Ilham Aliyev told the Cop29 climate conference on Tuesday. Speaking ...

‘World must pay up, or humanity will pay the price,’ Guterres warns COP29 climate summit

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called for 'climate justice' in his address to the United Nations annual ...

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Cop29 live updates: climate summit gets under way in Baku, Azerbaijan

Rich nations need to fund poorer nations to avoid burning fossil fuels and cope with severe weather events fuelled by global ...

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