Countries remained at loggerheads over climate finance, endorsement of the shift away from fossil fuels, and language about gender, in the final 48 hour stretch of the UN COP29 climate summit in Baku.
Most critically, the latest draft agreements released on Thursday failed to include a figure for a new global finance goal, leaving an ‘X’ in the document, as wealthy and poorer nations argued over basics such as a total sum, how it should be structured and who should pay.
Many of the key elements in the documents remained in brackets, to indicate a lack of agreement, despite ministers from a wide range of countries working in pairs to get consensus on the agenda items.