Global Leaders Gather in Baku for Critical Climate Talks

The 29th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference, held this year in the Azerbaijani capital Baku, kicked off November 11 with a plea for attendees to clean up a mess. “One single COP can’t deliver the full transformation that every nation needs,” UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell stated in his opening remarks. “Parties need to agree [on] a way out of this mess. That’s why we’re here in Baku. We must agree [on] a new global climate finance goal.” Stiell argued that climate finance…