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Coming to you live from our studios in central London, I'm Julian Marshall.
There are a lot of disgruntled and disappointed delegates who've been heading home today from the UN Climate Summit, or COP 29 in Azerbaijan.
Climate change is the defining issue of our time, and the world is on course to experience its hottest year on record.
Developing countries, which are suffering disproportionately from the growing number of extreme weather events, had hoped for large sums of money from rich countries, historically the biggest emitters of the greenhouse gas emissions.
Under a framework UN agreement, those wealthy countries are obliged to contribute to climate finance to help less developed countries tackle the consequences of global warming.
That figure was $100 billion a year, and although it was up to 300 billion in Baku, it's been widely criticized for failing to meet the scale of the challenge.
Istu Kumara is highly critical.