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Cop29

December 2024

  • A wildfire in a forest

    Climate crisis deepens with 2024 ‘certain’ to be hottest year on record

  • Fiona Harvey

    Cop29 gave us a Putin-friendly deal – and a glimpse of the dark future of climate talks

    Fiona Harvey
  • Damage caused to a house in Cwmtillery, Wales, during last week’s flooding in the UK

    People are angry about the floods – but turning to Reform endangers us all

  • A climate activist in the auditorium at the closing meeting of Cop29 on 24 November 2024.

    Observer letters
    It’s too late to halt the climate crisis

  • Anneliese Dodds, development minister

    UK increases World Bank contribution, boosting climate finance prospects

    Government puts forward £1.98bn in funding over three years, an increase of about 40% on last pledge
  • An aerial view of Erakor island and the coastline of Port Vila on 7 December, 2019 in Port Vila, Vanuatu.

    The Cop29 agreement failed island states. Now the UN’s top court must act on climate harm

    Ralph Regenvanu
  • Activists attend a protest at the COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan on 23 November 2024

    Cop29: poorer countries are left shortchanged again

  • The Flame Towers in Baku, Azerbaijan<br>View of The Flame Towers and Caspian sea as seen Baku Boulevard at sunset day in Baku, Azerbaijan

    Backroom deals and betrayal: how Cop29’s late $300bn deal left nobody happy

    While an agreement on climate finance was eventually reached, many poorer countries were outraged
  • Ed Miliband at Cop29

    UK will seek global coalition for climate action, says Ed Miliband as Cop29 ends

  • Climate activists stage a protest at Cop29 in Baku, Azerbaijan

    Science Weekly
    ‘Travesty of justice’: Cop29’s controversial deal – podcast

  • Protesters at Cop29 hold a large banner depicting a $100 note, on which Benjamin Franklin is wearing a gas mask. 'Pay your debt' is written across the note

    Cop29 deal fails to consider inflation so is not tripling of target, economists say

  • Ed Miliband

    Here’s what I learned at Cop29. Rows aside, an unstoppable transition to clean energy is happening

    Ed Miliband
  • I’m glad we got a deal at Cop29 – but western nations stood in the way of a much better one

    Mukhtar Babayev
  • First Edition newsletter
    Monday briefing: Where Cop29 failed – and the limited reasons for hope

  • Australia’s place in front of empty chairs at Cop29 in Baku

    As Cop29 wraps up and the climate crisis gathers pace, Australia’s dash for gas is confounding

    Bill Hare
  • Inside the summit

    Australia urged to do more on climate crisis as activists rue trillion-dollar Cop29 funding gap

  • COP29 - Plenary Finals - Closing, Baku, Azerbaijan - 23 Nov 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Bianca Otero/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock (14938362e) COP29 President MUKHTAR BABAYEV claps with the rest of the secretariat of the UNFCCC at the end of the COP20. After a long and drawn out statement and deliberation at last an agreement and pass was put through though some divisions are still in place. This concludes the COP29, the annual two week summit on climate change. Coined as Finance COP, it was the focus point but also wins and losses both financially and can compromise. COP29 - Plenary Finals - Closing, Baku, Azerbaijan - 23 Nov 2024

    The Guardian view on Cop29: poor-world discontent over a failure of rich countries to deliver

  • Activists stage a protest following the closing ceremony in Baku amid anger over the deal and the negotiation process

    Cop29 climate finance deal criticised as ‘travesty of justice’ and ‘stage-managed’

  • Developing countries condemn 'insufficient' Cop29 deal – video

  • The silver lining at a disappointing Cop29? It showed climate progress can survive Trump 2.0

    Geoffrey Lean
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