Climate talks in Baku ended with a mix of urgency and delay, progress and frustration. But finance deal could be a game-changer.

A bitterly-fought climate finance deal reached at COP29 risks weakening emissions-cutting plans from developing countries, observers say, further raising the stakes for new national commitments due early next year.

Energy secretary Ed Miliband described the agreement as ‘critical’, but charities condemned the financial package for developing nations

The world approved a bitterly negotiated climate deal Sunday but poorer nations most at the mercy of worsening disasters dismissed a $300 billion a year pledge from wealthy historic polluters