The next major United Nations meeting on climate change, known as COP29, is about to get underway in Baku, Azerbaijan. These annual meetings are the key international summits as the world attempts to address the unfolding climate crisis.

COP29 kicks off in Baku, uniting nearly all nations to address climate finance and evaluate global progress in tackling climate change.

The 2024 summit in Azerbaijan comes amid fresh reports showing that global warming levels are accelerating, bringing more intense climate-related disasters and an increased demand for funding to mitigate and protect communities from the effects of climate change.

Several small island nations presidents and over a dozen leaders from countries across Africa are set to speak over the two-day World Leaders’ Summit at the COP29 conference

This month's U.N. climate summit - COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan - has been dubbed the "climate finance COP" for its central goal: to agree on how much money should go each year to helping developing countries cope with climate-related costs.

Held in Eastern Europe for the first time, COP29 aims to mobilize hundreds of billions of dollars to strengthen international climate commitments and support the transition to a climate-resilient worl

Cop29 finally gets under way in Baku; will nations be able to push for greater progress or will the negotiations stall?

The UN's World Meteorological Organization (WMO) signalled the highest alarm level in the face of the speed of climate change, at the opening of a major international conference in Azerbaijan on Monday.