Rappler is covering the United Nations Climate Change Conference or COP29 happening in Baku, Azerbaijan, from November 11 to 22, 2024.
Azerbaijan is set to oversee the annual negotiations among nearly 200 countries, with climate finance, fossil fuel transition, and money for loss and damage among the top agenda items.
Earlier in April, COP29 host Azerbaijan said that “as a country rich with fossil fuels,” it would defend the right of oil- and gas-producing nations to invest in the sector.
The conference comes as the United States, among the world’s top greenhouse gas emitters, reelected former president Donald Trump, a known climate denier who vowed to remove the country from the Paris Agreement a second time.
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