The UN climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, was poorly organized, fell far short of goals for climate finance, and raised doubts about the ability of the COP process to halt alarming global warming

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.

The annual climate conference COP29 happened the same week as the 2024 G20 Rio de Janeiro summit. At both events, those who visited noted that the recent U.S. presidential election hovered over the discourse,