$300bn cash deal rescues COP29 climate talks from collapse

3000亿美元现金协议挽救COP29气候谈判免于崩溃

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2024-11-24

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At the climate summit in Azerbaijan, richer countries agreed to increase their contribution to $300bn a year by 2035, to help poorer countries most affected. Also: many killed during Israeli air strike in Beirut.
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  • This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

  • I'm Jackie Leonard and in the early hours of Sunday 24th November, these are our main stories.

  • The UN Climate Summit in Azerbaijan has agreed that richer countries will raise their climate finance contribution to support poorer countries to $300 billion a year by 2035.

  • A day of intense Israel airstrikes and gun battles has left dozens dead in Lebanon, and the Sudanese army says it's recaptured a provincial capital from its paramilitary rivals, the rsf.

  • Also in this podcast, how artificial intelligence is being harnessed to save red squirrels in the UK and we begin in Azerbaijan.

  • Saturday was a hectic and chaotic Day at COP 29, the UN climate summit in the country which at times teetered on the brink of collapse.

  • At one stage, dozens of representatives from small Pacific island nations threatened by rising sea levels walked out, disrupting the summit, which had already overrun by a day.

  • Then came a final draft proposal aimed at resolving the bitter dispute between the richer and poorer countries countries over climate financing.

  • The COP 29 document pledged to raise support for underdeveloped countries to $300 billion a year.

  • By 2035, those countries had demanded 500 billion, but late into the night they agreed to the lower figure.

  • Before that, there was one smaller breakthrough, an agreement to establish a global market for buying and selling carbon credits.

  • Earlier On Saturday, the BBC's climate editor Justin Rolat caught up with some of the negotiat as they scuttled from room to room to try to get a sense of what was holding up a deal.

  • We're a day over the deadline for an agreement and the representatives of dozens of the world's least developed countries have just stormed out of a key meeting.

  • Cedric Schuster of Samoa represents the world's small island states.