Negotiators are racing to salvage the United Nations climate talks after developing nations staged a walkout, demanding more in climate finance from historically wealthy emitters.
More than a day past the scheduled conclusion of COP29 talks, host Azerbaijan urged delegates to seek consensus to avoid failure.
“I know that none of us wants to leave Baku without a good outcome,” COP President Mukhtar Babayev told a late-night session on Saturday, urging all nations to “bridge the remaining divide”.
The comments came hours after delegations from small island states and the least developed nations walked out of negotiations on a funding package for poor countries to curb and adapt to climate change, saying their climate finance interests were being ignored.
“We’ve just walked out. We came here to this COP for a fair deal. We feel that we haven’t been heard,” said Cedric Schuster, the Samoan chairman of the Alliance of Small Island States, a coalition of …