UN to focus on finance at climate meeting

The 29th meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change starts Nov. 11 in Baku, Azerbaijan. The focus this year is on how to fund projects needed to meet goals of the Paris Agreement, which aims to cap global warming to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Ahead of the event, known as COP29, the UN released three reports—on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, plans to mitigate climate change, and countries’ ability to adopt the plans—that take stock of how the world is doing in achieving those goals. In each of the reports, researchers found that limiting warming to the target 1.5 °C will be difficult if not impossible under current trajectories. In the emissions report , released Oct. 24, researchers says that GHG emissions are on track to cause temperatures to rise 3.1 °C by the end of the century. “Limiting warming to 1.5 °C is virtually