COP29 Begins With Climate Finance, Absent Leaders, and Trump Looming Large

This story originally appeared on WIRED Italia and has been translated from Italian.

$1 trillion a year in climate finance—that’s the goal. Getting a commitment of this size will be the measure of success of this year’s UN Conference of the Parties on Climate Change, COP29, which is being held in Baku, Azerbaijan.

At these conferences, held every 12 months, everyone has a microphone—small islands with 10,000 inhabitants sit next to the giant countries of the world as they try to make decisions on how to curb climate change and its impacts.

The meeting kicks off today with a plenary, and tomorrow will hear from heads of state and their environment ministers.

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