It's time for the annual United Nations Climate Summit, where this key negotiator says progress is slow but still essential.

We're in this canoe together. We've got to keep pushing forward.

I'm Carolyn Beeler. More on COP 29 and why it matters. And the reversal of a verdict in a landmark case against the oil and gas giant shell. Also today, Donald Trump's national security and foreign policy team is starting to take shape.

Personnel is policy. There will be no shortage of major international challenges facing the next administration.

Ben will hear from a Haitian-American playwright from Detroit, who's confronting negative

stereotypes about both places.

To me, Haiti is the Detroit of the world.

I've heard the same negative things about Haiti that I've heard about Detroit and vice versa.

All those stories and more ahead on the world.

I'm Carolyn Beeler.

Marco Wormann is on assignment today.

The annual UN Climate Summit has just gotten underway in Baku, Azerbaijan,

kicking off with now familiar statements from world leaders on the dire urgency to address global warming,

like from the president of the summit, Mukhtar Babayev.

Collecks, we are on the road to ruin.

But these are not the future problems.

Climate change is already here.

This year's summit will focus on money.

Delegates will hammer out a new global strategy

for providing funds that developing nations need to slash emissions and deal with the impacts

of climate change. The mood is, you know, we've got work to do. Let's do it. That is Tina Stagie,

a key player at the summit. She's the climate envoy for the Marshall Islands, which has emerged as a leading voice at these talks. Stagie, a key player at the summit. She's the climate envoy for the Marshall Islands, which has

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