Negotiators were working round the clock at Cop29 in Baku, Azerbaijan on Wednesday as time to secure a crucial climate deal starts to slip away. Countries remain at odds on the summit’s main goal – how much financial firepower can be arranged to help vulnerable countries avoid the worst effects of climate change and transition towards a sustainable future. This is […]
Plans to harness high humidity to produce crucial rainfall for farmers in arid conditions are taking shape under a multibillion-dollar UAE-US partnership turning brainstorming into concrete climate solutions. The high-tech project from US company Heka Cloud is one of several being developed with financial support from the Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate (Aim for Climate) established by […]
“It makes common sense to tax mega polluters and the mega-rich to ensure that we have the money needed for climate action at home and globally” according to one campaigner. Who should foot the climate finance bill – from loss and damage funds to new funding targets – has become an enduring controversy at recent […]
A project in Rwanda has shown how farmers can produce more from crops simply by using modern and higher quality varieties of seeds. In one case, farmers were able to grow up to 10 times as many carrots on the same plot of land by swapping old seeds for new, more suitable versions. With more extreme […]
BAKU, Azerbaijan — Ilham Aliyev’s fossil fuel glorification is “inappropriate” for the leader of a country hosting an international climate conference, Belgium’s energy minister told POLITICO. The Azerbaijani president used his opening speech at the COP29 climate summit in Baku this week to praise the country’s oil and gas resources as a “gift of the God.” “I really […]
Geopolitical tensions have rippled through Cop29, prompting climate campaigners to remind national leaders why they are in Baku. Negotiations will resume on Monday – Sunday is a rest day – after the usually staid world of climate negotiations was rattled by a French minister cancelling her trip to the summit and Argentina withdrawing its delegation. The […]
Talks about a $1 trillion a year fund to fight climate change are fractured over the issue of who will pay, as rising economies such as China, Brazil and India resist pressure to split the bill, The National has been told. One negotiator described a “series of deadlocks” at the Cop29 summit in Azerbaijan, with poorer countries at odds over whether to accept proposals from the […]
Island states are angry and suffering over climate change, Toeolesulusulu Cedric Schuster, chairman of the Alliance of Small Island States, said on Friday as he ruled out the prospect of any “backslide” at Cop29. It came as the summit, held in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku, was processing a call that future UN climate talked needed an overhaul. “We are angry,” […]
Cop29 negotiations are moving too slowly, Azerbaijan’s lead negotiator Yalchin Rafiyev said on Friday, as the UN climate summit nears its halfway mark. “We cannot afford to leave too much ground to be covered later in the summit at the political level. We are urging everyone to intensify their engagements and remain focused on the imperative […]
Women’s voices need to be heard at the climate negotiating table, experts have told The National, as the role of women and small and medium enterprises was highlighted at Cop29. As heads of state gathered in Baku for the World Leaders Climate Action Summit, only a handful of the 78 attendees were women, prompting the question: “Where are […]
