Ministers involved in leading UN COP29 negotiations from countries including Germany to Australia and South Africa landed to a deadlock over a new global finance deal in the final week of the climate summit.
While some top diplomats, such as US climate official John Podesta and Brazil’s Marina Silva and André Corrêa do Lago, had flown to Brazil to push for support for climate action at the G20 leaders meeting in Rio, the ministers in Azerbaijan were girded for a battle to keep talks on track at COP29.
Donald Trump’s election and the aggressive stance of the host country president Ilham Aliyev cast a shadow over COP29 in its first week, leaving the key business of raising money to help deal with climate change in disarray.