Climate finance was left out at the Bonn summit

Halfway through the COP29 climate summit, delegates from 198 countries met in Bonn (Germany) to advance pre-agreements and lighten the negotiating burden of the meeting in Azerbaijan. “Don’t leave the hardest work to the last minute,” Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary of UN Climate Change, warned them at the start of the meeting. But after ten days he said that they had taken “modest steps forward”. Climate finance by 2025 from rich to poorer countries, one of the key issues, was left pending.

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