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COP29: Azerbaijan proposes $250bn annual climate finance target
The coming hours will reveal whether this is enough to placate developing countries and small-island states.
'Clearly unacceptable': EU unconvinced by COP29 compromise proposal
Azerbaijan’s first bid for a climate finance deal has failed to break a stand-off between rich and poor nations, though it says a ‘breakthrough’ is imminent.
COP29: EU commissioner rejects backtracking on climate deal
As negotiators await Azerbaijan’s proposal for a global agreement on climate finance, the EU holds firm on the need to move away from fossil fuels, but refuses to say how much it is prepared to help developing countries do the same.
Azerbaijan promises late night compromise for climate finance goal
The COP29 presidency plans to release a draft agreement on a bitterly fought new climate finance goal in a bid to break the deadlock over who pays and how much.
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COP29: Small island states ‘feel abandoned’ as climate talks grind on
Representative for small island nations laments state of negotiations over financing at COP29.
COP29: 'Cut the theatrics' over finance talks, UN climate chief warns
The whole COP climate process could stall or go into reverse if governments refuse to compromise with less than a week of negotiations left.
COP29: The clock is ticking as the money talk intensifies
The first week of the COP29 summit in Baku ended with frustration at a lack of progress on the key issue of financing the energy transition and climate adaptation in developing countries.
Al Gore calls for reform of COP climate process
Former US vice-president now climate campaigner Al Gore said it is 'absurd' that the presidency of the UN climate talks is being repeatedly handed to petrostates, in an exclusive interview with Euronews.
Blocking deforestation law could make EU look ‘ridiculous’
The largest political group in the European Parliament is counting on support from the far right to gut a law that would keep products linked to deforestation off the market, in a move that risks undermining the EU’s position at the COP29 climate talks.
EU foreign policy chief: world cannot wait on US for climate action
EU negotiators prepare for tough talks on finance for developing countries at the COP29 climate talks that open in Baku, Azerbaijan, next week,
EU climate chief gets green light for new Commission
Dutch commissioner recommits to a 90% emissions cut by 2040, pledges not to revise deadlines for the phase-out of new petrol and diesel cars, and brushes off a far-right climate denier during a grilling by MEPs.
New environment commissioner approved after parliamentary stand-off
After a somewhat unconvincing showing in the teeth of a grilling by several European Parliament committees, Swedish former EU affairs minister Jessika Roswall has been waved through as the next environment commissioner.
Trump victory casts shadow over upcoming COP global climate talks
Donald Trump already pulled the US out of the Paris Agreement to halt global heating once, and his presidential election victory means he could be about to do so again. Many are now looking to the EU to hold the line.
Fate of Swedish environment commissioner candidate in doubt
The nominees for the key European energy and environment commissioner roles faced a grilling by MEPs on Tuesday evening. Danish candidate Dan Jørgensen sailed through to clinch the energy portfolio, but the fate of Sweden's candidate to implement the European Green Deal hangs in the balance.
Stick to the fossil fuel car ban, says incoming EU transport chief
Incoming Greek commissioner wins over MEPs with confident performance throughout a gruelling hearing that saw him reject calls to slow the switch to electric vehicles.
Greens fear the EU may have to keep global climate action alive
‘We don’t want other leaders and other countries laughing at us anymore,’ Donald Trump said in June 2017 when he formally announced America’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, the international deal signed in December 2015 to halt global heating. He’s promised to do it again.
Europe’s greenhouse gas output down over 8% in a year
Latest reports show the EU is bucking a global trend for continuously rising emissions, but still not on track to meet its own climate action targets.
Catastrophic floods in Spain linked directly to climate change
From drought that killed a quarter of a million in the Horn of Africa and heatwaves in Europe that cost some 90,000 lives to what may be the deadliest floods in Spain’s modern history – new analyses draw a direct link between ever more frequent extreme weather and climate change.
European Parliament delegation to COP29 to receive ‘burner’ phones
The head of the Greens’ delegation to COP29 climate talks in Azerbaijan next month has redoubled criticism of the host country over its human rights record and status as a major fossil fuel producer.
Microplastics trigger major concern ahead of UN treaty talks
As officials from nearly 200 countries convened in Colombia this week to discuss implementing a global pact to reverse biodiversity loss, and prepare for crunch climate talks in Azerbaijan in November, yet another major environmental threat – plastic pollution – is the focus of a separate UN summit.
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