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Pakistan is pushing for global broadcast cuts, funding of resistance to COP-29 Summit

Tobacco is increased by a factory in this image of a representational image. – Reuters Musadik Malik meets the leadership of the COP-29 in Azerbaijan. It highlights the role of Global North in climate broadcasts. It seeks to collaborate with Pakistan-Azerbaijan in green areas. The federal minister for climate change and environmental coordination, Dr. Musadik Malik has called for urgent and just global action to tackle climate change – including deeper emissions and enhanced funding for vulnerable resilience. He made these observations during bilateral meetings with the COP-29 president and the special envoy to the president of Azerbaijan, the Mukhtar

June 21, 2025

International

WB, IMF CLIMATE SNUB “Worried”: COP29 Presidency

BONN: The hosts of the latest UN climate talks are concerned that international lenders are receding from their commitments to enhance funding to respond to developing countries to global warming. This stress has increased as Trump’s administration has reduced external assistance and discouraged US -based development lenders such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund from focusing on climate funding. Developing nations, in addition to China, will need about $ 1.3 trillion per year by 2035 in financial aid to transition to renewable energy and climate to capture their economies from increasing weather conditions. But nowhere has it

November 24, 2024

COP29 UN Climate Conference Agrees to Triple Public Finance to Developing Countries, Protecting Lives and Livelihoods

The UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) closed today with a new finance goal to help countries to protect their people and economies against climate disasters, and share in the vast benefits of the clean energy boom. With a central focus on climate finance, COP29 brought together nearly 200 countries in Baku, Azerbaijan, and reached a breakthrough agreement that will: Triple public finance to developing countries, from the previous goal of USD 100 billion annually, to USD 300 billion annually by 2035.Secure efforts of all actors to work together to scale up finance to developing countries, from public and private sources,

November 24, 2024

Breakthrough in Baku delivers $1.3tn “Baku Finance Goal”

November: The COP29 Presidency of Azerbaijan today announced the agreement of the Baku Finance Goal (BFG), a new commitment to channel $1.3tn of climate finance to the developing world each year. Success on the COP29 Presidency’s top priority for the UN Climate Summit represents a significant uplift from the previous climate finance goal of $100 billion and will unlock a new wave of global investment. The Baku Finance Goal contains a core target for developed countries to take the lead on mobilizing at least $300 billion per year for developing countries by 2035. This represents a $50bn increase on the

November 24, 2024

COP29 achieves full operationalisation of Article 6 of Paris Agreement – Unlocks International Carbon Markets

November: Today, the COP29 Presidency announced the end of the decade-long wait for the conclusion of negotiations on high integrity carbon markets under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. This was one of the Presidency’s top priorities for the year and it drove Parties towards this milestone achievement through intensive dual-track technical and political negotiations. This strategy broke through years of stalemate and finalises the last outstanding item in the Paris Agreement. Article 6 provides trusted and transparent carbon markets for countries as they collaborate to reach their climate goals. This cross-border cooperation is expected to reduce the cost of

November 23, 2024

Business

Rich countries support increasing COP29 climate deal to $300 billion by 2035

Cars drive on the grounds of the United Nations COP29 climate change conference, in Baku, Azerbaijan on November 22, 2024. — Reuters Australia, EU and United States agree on increased climate finance. EU countries want China and the Gulf states to join them. Weak funding will affect their ability to reduce greenhouse emissions. BAKU: The European Union, the United States and other rich countries at the COP29 climate summit have agreed to increase their bid for a global finance target to $300 billion a year by 2035, sources said. The summit, which was due to culminate on Friday, went into

November 21, 2024

International

The new COP29 proposal shows that the big gap remains in the climate finance agreement

A man stands next to the logo of the United Nations COP29 climate change conference, in Baku, Azerbaijan, November 20, 2024. — Reuters BAKU: The United Nations climate body on Thursday published new options for the COP29 summit’s primary goal of agreeing how much money richer countries should provide to poorer ones to help them deal with climate change. Reaching a deal on the money proved slow at talks in Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku, and the final draft of the negotiating text arrived several hours later than planned as delegates entered what was in theory a 48-hour deadline. While the summit

November 21, 2024

Countries representing nearly 50% of global methane emissions from organic waste pledge to reduce emissions from sector

The COP29 Presidency launched the Reducing Methane from Organic Waste Declaration, with over 30 states amongst the initial signatories (who combined represent 47% of global methane emissions from organic waste) declaring their commitment to set sectoral targets to reducing methane from organic waste within future NDCs. This includes 7 of the world’s 10 largest organic waste methane emitters. Signatories commit to launching concrete policies and roadmaps to meet these sectoral methane targets. This declaration, developed with the UNEP-convened Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC), builds on the work of previous COPs by supporting the implementation of the 2021 Global Methane Pledge

November 20, 2024