The UN climate summit is opening in Azerbaijan with 2024 set to be the first year to breach the 1.5C global warming limit. But could President-elect Donald Trump's energy policies undermine the goal of reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions? Also on the programme: Russia and Ukraine attack each other with drones in their heaviest assault of the war; and Dutch police use a hologram of a sex worker murdered 15 years ago in a fresh bid to find her killer. (Photo: Climate activists project a message onto Tower Bridge ahead of COP29 climate talks in London. Credit: Reuters)
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The UN's annual climate summit gets underway in Azerbaijan on Monday with 2024 on track to be the warmest on record.
More than 100 heads of state and government are gathering in Baku for what's known as COP 29.
They'd previously pledged to stop the planet heating by 1.5 Celsius by the end of the century, but it's looking likely to be roughly double that.
And if the numbers don't convince the skeptics, maybe the climate will.
With an increasing number of extreme weather events caused by man made global warming, Europe, Asia and Africa have been affected by killer storms, heat waves and floods.
Some examples, more than 220 people were killed last month in the Spanish region of Valencia in one of the worst floods in in Europe this century.
The BBC's Nikki Schiller described the scenes in front of me are dozens and dozens, probably hundreds of cars, all tossed in the air.
And in the middle of the street there is debris everywhere.
There are blocks of concrete that have been thrown around.
There are bits of trees.