This year's U.N. climate summit delivered a deal on climate finance two days past deadline, after two weeks of tense negotiations. The summit's main agenda item - setting a new annual target for global climate finance - had nations wrangling for two weeks.

As Azerbaijan introduces its vibrant tea culture to COP29 attendees, scientists are studying how to save it from climate change

Baku, Azerbaijan —Azerbaijan is the land of fire, or so the Zoroastrian legend goes. Its supply of combustible fuel has long bound this story to Azerbaijan’s reality. One of its natural wonders is a “burning mountain,” Yanar Dagh, which blazes continuously from hydrocarbon gases venting from inside the earth.

This year's U.N. climate summit delivered a deal on climate finance two days past deadline, after two weeks of tense negotiations.

The world approved a bitterly negotiated climate deal Sunday committing wealthy historic polluters to $300 billion annually for poor and vulnerable nations that had demanded far more to confront the

Nearly 200 nations worldwide endorsed a fraught climate finance deal early Sunday morning at Cop29 climate summit in Baku. While hailed by some as a "new era for climate finance," the $300 billion annual commitment from affluent nations left developing countries fuming,

By Kate Abnett, Valerie Volcovici and Karin Strohecker BAKU (Reuters) -Countries agreed on Sunday to an annual finance target of $300 billion to help poorer countries deal with the impacts of climate change,