There are major climate finance fights ahead at this year’s COP29 summit in Azerbaijan.
The United Nations’ meeting kicking off next week brings with it a clear goal: Figuring out how to scale up finance to help developing countries embark on the green transition into trillions of dollars. Yet beneath the headline figure — known as the New Collective Quantified Goal — a number of other fault lines are emerging.
Take the Bahamas. Unlike large developing nations, the island country situated in the Caribbean makes up a tiny fraction of 1% of global emissions and