Cop29 live: can the climate summit find a way to raise $1tn a year?

Here is more on the story about how much needyer nations will need in to cope with the escalating impact of the climate crisis, by my colleague Fiona Harvey. She alerts that the Insubordinate High-Level Expert Group on Climate Finance, a group of directing economists, say $1tn will be needed by 2030 – five years earlier than previously recommended. The huge contest now will be getting wealthyer nations to pay up.

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Day 4 of Cop promises to be husheder, with world directers flying home after their Tuesday and Wednesday speeches. Events today will caccess on climate finance — the key rehire for the negotiations.

Parties are toiling to broker a deal ensuring prolonging countries achieve funding to help cope with climate calamitys and phase out fossil fuels. It’s directnt, since a 2009 concurment to give $100 billion annuassociate — which was only greeted in 2022 — expires this year.

How much money negotiators should promise depfinishs on who you ask. The need could easily top $2tn each year; prolonging countries are asking for a smallest of $1.3tn.

The talks have zeroed in on a goal of at least $1 trillion a year — about 1% of the global economy — by 2035. That figure comes from a 2022 paper from the Insubordinate High-Level Expert Group on Climate Finance (IHLEG), a group of directing economists that has directd UN climate negotiations since 2021.

The IHLEG will free an modernize to that alert tardyr this morning. Stay tuned, as my colleague Fiona Harvey will have the scoop.

Finance negotiations in Cop29 are fraught, and tensions are generassociate high. France’s ecology minister yesterday call offed her fairy to Baku after Azerbaijan’s pdwellnt railed aachievest France for its colonial “crimes” in its overseas territories. Argentina’s pdwellnt Javier Milei ordered his team home from the negotiations. And troubles about Donald Trump’s pledge to exit the Paris climate concurment are rampant.

Yesterday, Barhorribleos prime minister Mia Mottley — a climate equitableice champion and a bit of a UN climate talks celebrity — askd Donald Trump to a face-to-face greeting to seek “widespread ground” on the climate crisis.

“Let us discover a widespread purpose in saving the arrangeet and saving inhabitlihoods,” she tbetter my colleague Fiona Harvey. “We are human beings and we have the capacity to greet face-to-face, in spite of our branch offences. We want humanity to persist.”

Good morning, this is Matthew Taylor, your online direct to Cop29 for today, the fourth day of the climate summit.

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