Panelists at Newsweek's latest "Pillars of the Green Transition" event tackled some of the thorniest challenges for negotiators at the United Nations COP29 climate talks underway in Azerbaijan, from the enormous gap in global climate financing to the recent tectonic shift in U.

A group of conflict-affected countries is pushing at COP29 to double financial aid to more than $20 billion a year to combat the natural disaster and security crises facing their populations, a letter seen by Reuters showed.

COP29 is focused on getting the money needed to tackle climate change on the table, but disagreements over who pays loom large.

A group of conflict-affected countries is pushing at COP29 to double financial aid to more than $20 billion a year to combat the natural disaster and security crises facing their populations, a letter seen by Reuters showed.

Developing countries need at least $1 trillion per year by the end of the decade to cope with climate change, economists told U.N. talks in Baku, where early efforts to reach a finance deal risk being overshadowed by diplomatic rows.

"You owe us!" screamed a protest banner at the COP29 summit in Azerbaijan, where negotiations over how much rich nations most responsible for climate change should pay poorer ones are