COP 29 Day 2 LIVE: World Leaders Keir Starmer, Giorgia Meloni Speak at Baku Climate Summit | N18G

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Keir Starmer and Giorgia Meloni among the delegates expected to address the UN climate conference. The UN has announced the provisional number of participants in the year’s conference: 66,778. This includes everyone from heads of government to security staff to journalists.
The number is significantly down from the 83,884 who attended last year’s talks in the United Arab Emirates, although it is still far higher than all other previous events. Numbers of attendees have been rising rapidly in recent years; Cop27 had about 49,704 delegates attend, while Cop26 in Glasgow hosted 38,457.
Officials from the Taliban are attending Cop29, the first UN climate conference they have been at since they took power in Afghanistan in 2021. Because the organisation is not formally recognised by UN member states, the group cannot participate fully in proceedings but were invited by hosts Azerbaijan to “potentially participate in periphery discussions and potentially hold bilateral meetings,” according to a report by news agency Reuters.
For a fortnight from November 11, the world will be looking to climate negotiators, especially those from the developed countries, to ramp up actions to mitigate global warming and afford protection to the most vulnerable. For the first time in 15 years, the UNFCCC’s Conference of Parties (CoP) is slated to provide guidelines for financing climate action. At Copenhagen in 2009, developed countries agreed to mobilise $100 billion every year by 2020 to help developing countries address climate-related challenges. They managed to deliver on the promise partially, that too by 2022. Meanwhile, the Global South’s financial burden has increased several times from what was estimated at Copenhagen. CoP 29, which begins in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku on Monday, is expected to set up a new financial target, and funding mechanism. That’s why even before it has commenced, the Baku meet is being described as the “Finance CoP”.
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