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For many, the advent of the 29th UN Cop has elicited as much despair as hope – especially with the long shadow of the US election result darkening proceedings. Add in the grim irony of its setting in Baku, Azerbaijan – capital city of a petrostate maxing out on fossil…

Petrostate’s rebuke comes as Saudi Arabia and allies try to derail transition promise made at climate talks last year

In today’s newsletter: After two weeks of fraught negotiations, the draft text still contains an ‘X’ in place of a number. Is consensus on a trillion-dollar funding target for developing nations possible?

As COP29 concludes, Al Jazeera examines the 359 million weather-related displacements recorded worldwide since 2008.

Exclusive: world’s biggest emitters making most progress in introducing policies, study shows, but emissions still set to rise by 2.7C

Tensions at Cop29 in Baku intensified on Thursday after backlash against the latest proposals on a global climate agreement.

Negotiations at the 29th Conference of Parties (COP29) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) are entering their second week after things got off to a rocky start.

The European Union is key to a deal being done at UN climate talks in Baku by Friday -- viewed as a bridge both with China and poorer nations -- after climate sceptic Donald Trump's triumph in the US elections.

Almost a billion tonnes of emissions will be prevented from entering the atmosphere if Australia hits 82 per cent clean energy by 2030, a climate summit hears.

Nearly 40% of food sector lobbyists have travelled to Baku as part of countries’ delegations

Mukhtar Babayev urged governments to ‘work together’ to solve key political issues causing a deadlock at the UN climate talks in Baku.