Instead, they are climbing higher. As 40,000 people, including many leaders, gather this week for COP 29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, on the Caspian Sea, COP 29 itself is a signal of the urgency of the task.

Billed as the “finance Cop”, the 29th UN climate change summit (otherwise known as Cop29) in Baku, Azerbaijan, was expected ...

Baku's COP29 has billed itself as an event where "all voices are heard." But some protesters are being treated very ...

Baku, Azerbaijan —Azerbaijan is the land of fire, or so the Zoroastrian legend goes. Its supply of combustible fuel has long ...

This year's U.N. climate summit delivered a deal on climate finance two days past deadline, after two weeks of tense ...

Autocratic Azerbaijan is drawing criticism as COP29 host for its stance on fossil fuels, with President Ilham Aliyev calling ...

With the upcoming CoP 29 summit in Azerbaijan, world leaders face mounting pressure to deliver on pledges for climate finance and reduced fossil fuel reliance Back-to-back hurricanes Helene and ...

Now in its 29th year (hence, COP29) and taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan from November 11-22, this year’s event is being positioned as a “stand-and-deliver COP,” according to UN Climate ...

Joanna Depledge, a fellow at the University of Cambridge and an expert on international climate negotiations, has followed all 29 years of COP so far, and told me that Azerbaijan has “been ...