A finance deal reached at the COP29 summit to help less-developed countries tackle climate change has been criticised for failing to meet the scale of climate challenge
The head of the UN climate body, Simon Stiell, stated that the agreement was far from perfect, “No country got everything they wanted, and we leave Baku with a mountain of work still to do,” he said in a statement.
Talks at the UN climate summit COP29 in Azerbaijan ran 33 hours late
The African Group of Negotiators described the final pledge as “too little, too late”, while the representative from India dismissed the money as “a paltry sum.”