Australia urged to do more on climate crisis as activists rue trillion-dollar Cop29 funding gap

Guardian

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After two exhausting weeks of chaotic bargaining and sleepless nights, nearly 200 nations banged through the contentious finance pact in the early hours in a sports stadium in Azerbaijan.
Hürriyet Daily News
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Countries at the COP29 summit in Baku adopted a $300 billion a year global finance target on Sunday to help poorer nations cope with the impacts of climate change, a deal its intended recipients criticised as woefully insufficient, Reuters reported.
The News International
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The shift in position came after a $250 billion proposal for a deal, drafted by Azerbaijan's COP29 presidency on Friday, was panned by developing countries as insultingly low.
The Gazette
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Despite its unprecedented largesse, the deal hashed out at the COP29 climate conference – for wealthy Western nations to hand over £240 billion a year by 2035 to tackle climate change – was met with derision by some of the developing nations on the receiving end.
Daily Mail

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