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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: Shorn of negotiator parlance, the latest edition of the Conference of Parties (COP29) can be summed up with the one-liner from the movie Jerry Maguire: Show me the money. In Baku, Azerbaijan, ground zero of oil wells and an unlikely milieu for the pursuit of a cleaner planet, traditional negotiating blocs sparred and wrangled over a fortnight for a decision on climate finance. The quantum of money—and more so, its nature—was at the crux of the negotiations to mobilize capital to address climate change.

IDEAS 2024) to export defence products and equipment including advanced drones, fighter jets, commercial and logistic ships, electronic warfare equipment, and radars, Ministry of Defence Production Secretary Lt Gen (Retd) Chiragh Haider told PTI. Haider said the 12th edition of IDEAS held last week amidst tight security in Karachi was a big success and ended with a lot of potential export agreements.

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COP29 climate conference in Azerbaijan at the weekend as a sort of diplomatic echo of the US election result three weeks earlier. In the US, progressives found themselves blocked by a surprisingly strong coalition of both traditional Republicans, and a faction of working class and non-White supporters whom they’d regarded, perhaps naively, as their natural allies. At the United Nations climate conference in Baku, rich nations found that efforts to reduce their own emissions and fund climate programs elsewhere in the world bought them little favor with developing countries most at risk of global warming. Both situations are powerful examples of aspirational politics. Since the 19th century, conservatives have marketed themselves to the electorate by arguing that their policies were the best way to achieve the wealth and independence sought by working-class voters.

climate agreement on Sunday, at the Cop29 conference in Baku, though developing countries criticised the $300 billion annual commitment from affluent historic emitters as inadequate.

The United Nations’ annual climate talks pushed into overtime Saturday as negotiators pressed on to get a deal on money for developing nations to curb and adapt to climate change

Baku Olympic Stadium in Azerbaijan has served as a temporary Thunderdome for the United Nations’ COP29 climate conference. Some 20,000 delegates from nearly 200 countries gathered for small confabs by the concession stands, while all-hands meetings were staged on a football pitch tricked out with wooden floors and waterproof tents.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. BAKU, Azerbaijan—A few dozen miles from the United Nations climate conference here, a company controlled by the United Arab Emirates recently opened the region’s largest solar-power park. Nearby, a Saudi state-backed company is building a large wind farm.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. As CoP-29 reaches its final phase of talks in Baku, Azerbaijan, the focus on climate finance has intensified, underscoring its importance for developing economies like India. India’s transition to a low-carbon economy is more than just a national challenge; it is a global imperative.

Tata Power shares are in focus today after the company signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) during the COP29 climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan. The MoU aims to evaluate financing for several projects, with a total estimated cost of $4.25 billion. The MoU outlines the evaluation of financing for key ongoing projects, such as the 966 MW solar-wind hybrid project, the pumped hydro storage project, and other projects in the pipeline related to energy transition, decarbonization, and battery storage. It also includes ongoing financing for capital expenditures (capex) to strengthen the distribution networks managed by Tata Power.

From the beginning, the mood of the 'finance COP' in Azerbaijan has been far from optimistic. In the first week, Adaptation Fund head Mikko Ollikainen spoke about the 'great paradox' at the heart of the latest UNFCCC meet — the urgent calls of world leaders to safeguard vulnerable populations from worsening climate impacts, and the lack of funds to make that a reality. The UN's Adaptation Gap Report 2024: Come Hell and High Water, released on Nov 7, estimates that the adaptation finance gap stands between $187-359 bn a year. Much larger numbers are floating around in Baku. The report stresses another aspect: need to improve the design and modalities of adaptation projects to ensure that projects enhance resilience of vulnerable communities.

A new draft text released early Thursday which will form the basis of any deal reached at United Nations climate talks on money for developing countries to transition to clean energy and adapt to climate change left out a crucial sticking point: how mu...

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Big money to respond to climate change is key to the United Nations talks underway in Azerbaijan

BAKU: As ministers take over at the climate talks in the Azerbaijani capital, all eyes are on Rio, where the leaders of the G20 are meeting. The first week of the UN climate summit closed with the scheduled assembly late on Saturday night that lasted a little over three hours, ending at around half hour past midnight. The divergences among countries on important issues, such as finance and the path forward on the outcomes of last year's global stock take, and the absence of trust became apparent as countries took the floor to air their views. On some issues such as loss and damage and adaptation, and mitigation work programme the absence of trust and compromise among countries was such that «Rule 16» was invoked. Rule 16 refers to a provision which is used when countries can't even agree to produce an outcome that puts on record the discussions and divergent views. As a result, countries will have to begin their discussions all over again when they meet in Bonn in the summer. The lack of trust most evident on the issue of how countries propose to address and implement the decisions on emission reduction and energy transition agreed to in Dubai and the lack of any real progress on making available climate finance to developing countries.

climate change, according to a new analysis. The report comes at a time when countries are debating ways, at the UN climate conference in Azerbaijan, to raise trillions of dollars to help developing nations reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and adapt to climate change. The southwest monsoon will see a shift from east to west, with the normally-drier western states experiencing higher precipitation, the analysis by the Azim Premji University said. It said the southwest monsoon will bring more rain to the normally-drier western states. However, the eastern states, such as parts of the northeast, may experience reduced rainfall. This shift will further strain agricultural systems in these regions.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Hope continues to burn bright, despite a renewed sense of foreboding, that there may be a sliver of light at the end of the climate change tunnel. There is anxiety due to two shadows hanging over Baku, Azerbaijan’s capital, which is hosting the latest edition of multilateral climate change talks, CoP-29.