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Group says Azerbaijan’s new $500m climate investment fund ‘highlights hypocrisy’

Azerbaijan has unveiled plans to launch a "Climate Investment Fund for Future" with an initial $500 million contribution from its state oil company Socar,...

Michael Simire - July 11, 2024

Climate Change

COP29: Azerbaijan plans climate fund after pushback on fossil-fuel levy

Azerbaijan, host of the 2024 UN COP29 climate summit, has scrapped plans to propose a levy on fossil-fuel producers to raise climate-change funding, and...

Michael Simire - July 11, 2024

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COP29: Organising committee meets, final text of Host Country Agreement ready soon

The fifth meeting of the Organising Committee has been held in connection with the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP29) to...

Michael Simire - July 8, 2024

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COP29: Guterres highlights critical role of finance in support of climate action

UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, has called for a strong financial outcome from COP29, the global climate conference to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan,...

Michael Simire - July 4, 2024

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COP29: UN, US, Canada urge decisive measures as Azerbaijan underlines clean energy transition

For Azerbaijan, which is hosting the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 29),...

Michael Simire - July 1, 2024

Climate Change

Healthy Features Summit: Climate crisis is also a health crisis – WHO, COP29

The climate crisis also means a health crisis, Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has said. Ghebreyesus, who made the submssion...

Michael Simire - June 18, 2024

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