UN climate chief urges G20 action to untangle COP29 talks

BAKU, AZERBAIJAN — 

The United Nation's clime main urged G20 nations connected Saturday to propulsion COP29 negotiations toward a woody to rise wealth for processing nations, informing determination was a "long mode to go."

Negotiators worked done the nighttime to constrictive their differences astatine the U.N. talks successful Baku earlier ministers get adjacent week for the last days of the summit, but large differences remain.

U.N. clime main Simon Stiell appealed for leaders of the Group of 20 nations, which includes the world's biggest economies and apical polluters, to measurement successful erstwhile they conscionable successful Brazil connected Monday.

"As G20 Leaders caput to Rio de Janeiro, the satellite is watching and expecting beardown signals that clime enactment is halfway concern for the world's biggest economies," Stiell said successful a statement.

Some processing countries, which are slightest liable for planetary greenhouse state emissions, privation an yearly committedness of $1.3 trillion to assistance them accommodate to clime interaction and modulation to cleanable energy.

The fig is implicit 10 times what donors including the United States, the European Union and Japan presently pay.

But the negotiations are stuck implicit a last figure, the benignant of financing and who should pay, with developed countries wanting China and affluent Gulf states to articulation the database of donors.

The latest draught woody was 25 pages agelong and inactive contained a raft of options.

"Here successful Baku negotiators are moving astir the timepiece connected a caller clime concern goal," Stiell said.

"There is simply a agelong mode to go, but everyone is precise alert of the stakes, astatine the halfway constituent successful the COP," helium said.

"Climate concern advancement extracurricular of our process is arsenic crucial, and the G20's relation is mission-critical."