COP29 host says deal on climate aid essential but offers few details

Berlin (AFP) April 25, 2024

The world must agree this year on how to raise billions of dollars to help poorer countries adapt to global warming, the president of the UN climate talks said Thursday. Mukhtar Babayev of Azerbaijan offered little detail about how to broker this deal but said climate finance would be a "pillar" of the COP29 summit in the petro-state in November. "We know that the world needs to increase