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Climate activists holding up a sign reading "We don't have another year! COP29, Baku, Azerbaijan, 19.11.2024

Video. COP29: denial in the face of a climate emergency

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At COP29 in Baku, climate activists demanded that rich countries provide $5 trillion per year in funding to support poorer countries' climate needs.

While negotiations were carred out on providing funds to deal with climate crises, vulnerable countries requested $1.3 trillion annually in climate finance to support recovery and the energy transition.

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Activist Aishwarya Visvanathan called for unity in the global south against a bad deal. Kjell Kühne, dressed as a dugong, called for an end to the use of fossil fuels and warned of the destruction of endangered species' habitats, such as dugongs in the Arabian Gulf.

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