COP29 ends with contentious outcome
China DailyBy HOU LIQIANG | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2024-11-24 21:44 COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev walks during a closing plenary meeting at the COP29 United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov 24, 2024. Following two weeks of wrangling between the delegations of developing and developed countries, the COP29 United Nations climate change conference finally concluded, more than 30 hours past its deadline, with the adoption of a climate finance target criticized by one Global South representative as "a joke". A key task of COP29, officially known as the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which began on Nov 11 in Baku, Azerbaijan, was to establish a 2025-35 climate finance target to facilitate climate actions in the Global South, where countries have disproportionately suffered from the impact of climate change. Regarding the climate finance target, Rob Moore, associate director of the independent climate change think tank E3G, said, "The goal is undeniably lower than many hoped for."