Although the COP29 was due to come to an end on Friday 22 November, it will, unsurprisingly, go into overtime. At a press conference, Alchin Rafiev, Azerbaijan’s chief climate negotiator, acknowledged that the Presidency had “published a simplified package of draft decisions” and that the work was not yet finished.
In the latest version of the final draft agreement, published at the time of going to press, a figure for the new climate finance target was revealed for the very first...