COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, devoted to climate finance, began its second week of negotiations on Monday 18 November without any major breakthroughs, as the European Commissioner for Climate Action, Wopke Hoekstra, pointed out at a press conference.
“Let’s tackle the elephant in the room straight away: yes, if you look at the geopolitical context that is on everyone’s mind, through these negotiations, the context is indeed difficult”, he conceded.
Undoubtedly referring to the current...