COP29 Begins With Climate Finance, Absent Leaders, and Trump Looming Large

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The annual UN climate summit has kicked off in Baku, Azerbaijan, with lofty goals, but many global leaders missing.

This story originally appeared on WIRED Italia and has been translated from Italian. $1 trillion a year in climate finance—that’s the goal. Getting a commitment of this size will be the measure of success of this year’s UN Conference of the Parties on Climate Change, COP29, which is being held in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Brussels’ negotiating position has been affected by the impact of the tragic flooding in Valencia, Spain, in recent weeks, with this signaling the need to devote more resources to climate adaptation. German chancellor Olaf Scholz, who is embroiled in a government crisis, will be absent. So too will French president Emmanuel Macron, due to disagreements with Baku over the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict involving Azerbaijan and Armenia. Along with him, most French NGOs will not take part.

 

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