Climate challenges
The Statesman|November 14, 2024
SIR, As the annual UN climate summit COP29 gathers in Baku, Azerbaijan, it faces a forbidding future.
Climate challenges

Donald Trump, backed to the hilt by fossil fuel interests, will be back in the White House. He has indicated the US would again exit the Paris climate agreement.

Climate finance is COP29’s main theme, where rich industrialised nations will have to up a new, bigger fund, a new collective quantified goal, to help developed and vulnerable nations shift away from fossil fuels and adapt to climate change.

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