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.

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.

"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