‘Travesty of justice’: Cop29’s controversial deal

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🗓️ 25 November 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Madeleine Finlay hears from the Guardian’s environment editor, Damian Carrington, about the controversial climate finance deal that brought Cop29 negotiations to a close in the early hours on Sunday morning in Baku, Azerbaijan. Developing countries asked rich countries to provide them with $1.3tn a year to help them decarbonise their economies and cope with the effects of the climate crisis. But the final deal set a pledge of just $300bn annually, with $1.3tn only a target. Damian tells Madeleine how negotiations unfolded, and what we can expect from next year’s conference in Brazil. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod

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1:42.3	first petro state, a country reliant on oil and gas for half of its GDP,
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1:52.4	So Azerbaijan's an authoritarian state. It's run by someone called Ilam Alayev, who is essentially a dictator.
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