Battle lines drawn on new climate finance goal despite ‘shot in the arm’ cash injection at COP29


Battle lines have been drawn between the almost 200 countries meeting in Azerbaijan as they seek to agree a new pot of money to help developing countries cope with climate change.

Over the last two days, leaders have swanned to the capital Baku for the COP29 climate summit to give glitzy speeches on how much they are doing and how everyone else needs to do more.