Over 300 activist groups urged developing nations to walk away from deadlocked COP29 climate negotiations if wealthy countries don't make a better offer.

But as exciting as it was, attending this climate summit also came with its challenges—starting with just getting to the venue – the Olympic Stadium. The first morning of the conference, I left the hotel armed with a map on the phone and what I thought was a good sense of direction.

Disputes in Baku are growing increasingly heated 24 hours before the UN Climate Change Conference is due to end, as developing countries demand industrialized nations drastically increase aid, while the EU,

A key task of the UN gathering, which kicked off on Nov 11 in Baku, Azerbaijan, is to establish a 2025-35 climate finance commitment from developed nations to developing countries, which is officially known as the New Collective Quantified Goal.

A draft deal at the U.N. Climate Change Conference calls for wealthy nations to give developing ones $250 billion a year starting in 2035.

Country delegates at COP29 met for a plenary Saturday night to agree on some aspects of this year's negotiations, while their teams continued to work on the summit's centerpiece topic: agreeing a new target for annual climate finance.

The European Union, United States and other wealthy countries at the COP29 climate summit have agreed to raise their offer of a global finance target to $300 billion per year by 2035, sources told Reuters on Saturday.

UN climate talks looked set to overrun into the weekend as a deep gulf formed between richer and poorer countries over cash to help those most vulnerable in a warming world. Wealthier nations offered to more than double to $250bn a year the cash they give developing countries annually to fight climate change.

The COP29 climate summit ran into overtime on Friday, after a draft deal that proposed developed nations take the lead in providing $250 billion in annual climate finance by 2035 drew criticism from all sides.