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The World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes the urgent need to prioritize health in climate action, ahead of the 2024 UN Climate Change Conference (COP29), to mitigate escalating global health risks.

India's national statement is scheduled for November 18-19

With U.N. climate talks tackling complex topics from energy policy to global financial aid, the annual summit has developed its own ever-growing lexicon

At the COP16 negotiations in Colombia, countries failed to figure out how they would mobilise $200 billion a year in conservation funding by 2030

Climate finance issues expected to come up at COP29 in Baku; floods in western and central Africa, and the Chennai Urban Farming Initiative

Teams from China and the US, the largest carbon emitters, the EU and the UK will be among the top negotiators at COP29

COP29 World Climate Action Summit Highlights: At the COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, countries approved vital carbon credit quality standards essential for facilitating a U.N.-backed global carbon market aimed at funding greenhouse gas reduction projects. This early agreement marks a significant step forward, despite concerns about the upcoming U.S. administration under President-elect Donald Trump, who has indicated intentions to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. Experts suggest that the endorsement might help operationalize the market by next year, enabling countries and companies to purchase carbon credits for climate initiatives worldwide. However, while the approved standards seek to address the credibility of projects, campaigners have raised concerns about their adequacy, especially regarding human rights protections. Criticism also arose regarding the decision-making process, with some nations feeling excluded from discussions. Moving forward, negotiators aim to establish further rules to ensure the market’s integrity, which could potentially yield $250 billion annually and cut carbon emissions significantly by 2030.

India’s key priorities at the conference are likely to focus on ensuring accountability for developed nations on climate finance, strengthening resilience for vulnerable communities, and achieving an equitable energy transition, experts anticipate

The 29th session of the climate change conference of parties (COP29) is being held from November 11-22 in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan Baku

More than 75 leaders are expected in Baku over two days but the heads of some of the most powerful and polluting economies are not attending this year’s summit

The Baku meet is an opportunity for India to fast-track its efforts in reducing methane emissions

The 18-member expert delegation included food scientists, medical doctors, IT specialists, agriculture specialists, global health researchers, finance and energy specialists, policy administrators from India, Azerbaijan, USA, Canada, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Kenya, UK, Uganda and Austria

India is expected to stick to its stance of getting developed countries to increase climate finance, with a highly placed official saying, “We are flexible and open to different kinds of finance.” The official told The Hindu, “A key concern is that developed countries are trying to include developing countries (China and India) using new terms such as ‘major economies’ in a bid to get them to be part of NCQG.”

India’s COP29 strategy emphasises climate finance, accountability, and protection for vulnerable communities, urging developed nations to fulfill climate pledges

Countries come to Baku for the main United Nations forum for climate diplomacy after new warnings that 2024 is on track to break temperature records, adding urgency to a fractious debate over climate funding.

This year’s U.N. climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, marks the world’s 29th leadership gathering to confront global warming since the first “Conference of the Parties” in 1995.

As talks open, United Nations warns that Paris climate agreement’s goals ‘are in great peril’; re-election of Donald Trump as U.S. President has cast shadow on the summit; many world leaders have also skipped the meet where the primary focus is on increasing climate financing by wealthy nations 

It offers two pathways for countries and companies to trade carbon offsets, supporting the achievement of emission reduction targets set in their climate action plans, or nationally determined contributions

Such a market would allow countries to trade carbon credits among themselves

Delegates at the conference must adopt the summit agenda by consensus as their first task when the COP29 talks begin on Nov. 11 in Baku, Azerbaijan

In a secretly recorded video, CEO of the COP29 talks offers to introduce a representative of a fake oil and gas company, to the Azeri national oil and gas company SOCAR

Officials are keen to secure an early "win" on Article 6 at this year's climate conference in Azerbaijan

The hope against hope is that an NCQG target will be agreed upon and there will be pledges for seed funding it

COP29 World Climate Action Summit Live Updates: At the COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, countries approved vital carbon credit quality standards essential for facilitating a U.N.-backed global carbon market aimed at funding greenhouse gas reduction projects. This early agreement marks a significant step forward, despite concerns about the upcoming U.S. administration under President-elect Donald Trump, who has indicated intentions to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. Experts suggest that the endorsement might help operationalize the market by next year, enabling countries and companies to purchase carbon credits for climate initiatives worldwide. However, while the approved standards seek to address the credibility of projects, campaigners have raised concerns about their adequacy, especially regarding human rights protections. Criticism also arose regarding the decision-making process, with some nations feeling excluded from discussions. Moving forward, negotiators aim to establish further rules to ensure the market’s integrity, which could potentially yield $250 billion annually and cut carbon emissions significantly by 2030.

Delegates gathering in Baku are hoping to resolve the summit's top agenda item – a deal for up to $1 trillion in annual climate finance for developing countries

Baku meet will focus on climate finance framework

Within moments, U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres took to the stage to say that doubling down on fossil fuels was an absurd strategy

The acronym dominating this year's summit is NCQG - which stands for the New Collective Quantified Goal.

The last global scientific consensus on climate change was released in 2021 through the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, however scientists say that evidence shows global warming and its impacts are unfolding faster than expected

Nearly 200 nations have gathered at the annual U.N. climate summit in Baku, focused this year on raising hundreds of billions of dollars to fund a global transition to cleaner energy sources and limit the climate damage caused by carbon emissions