Climate Change: Actions Before Agreement

On Sunday 24 November, 33 hours later than originally scheduled and very close to collapse, negotiators at Baku, Azerbaijan, finally reached an agreement that richer countries should raise the funding target to US$300 billion per year to help poorer countries address the climate change crisis by 2035. The deal was far from a happy consensus, and the target is far below what developing countries were pushing for, which is US$1.3 trillion a year.