Authoritarian fossil fuel states keep hosting climate conferences. How do they operate? What do they want?
For the third year in a row, the United Nations Climate Change Conference will be hosted by an authoritarian state that sells ...
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More countries sign declaration to triple nuclear capacity
At the COP29 UN climate change conference taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan, six more countries - El Salvador, Kazakhstan, ...
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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UN climate summit to focus on finance as world off track to meet emissions targets
COP29 follows the release of UNEP’s Emissions Gap Report 2024, which warned that without more ambitious cuts to greenhouse ...
Corruption revelations, Trump presidency loom over this year's COP climate conference
The crowning achievement at last year's COP climate conference in Dubai was a global consensus on the need to "transition ...
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What to expect as the UN’s COP29 climate change summit begins in Azerbaijan
The 2024 summit in Azerbaijan comes amid fresh reports showing that global warming levels are accelerating, bringing more ...
Earth’s biggest polluters aren’t sending leaders to UN climate talks in a year of weather extremes
The major focus of the negotiations is climate finance, which is rich nations trying to help poor countries pay for ...
Why UN climate summits still matter – and what to expect from Cop29
Every autumn, the UN holds its international climate summit or “Cop” (Conference of the Parties). Between each Cop, a smaller ...
COP16 Vs. COP29 — Climate Goals Lead To A Global Funding Fight
The outcomes of COP16 on biodiversity may conflict with the continued climate funding fight between environmentalists and ...