The latest climate summit embraced the same policy that has been adapted since such climate talks began in 1995: the subordination of Earth’s environment and the lives of those impacted to the corporate and economic demands of the United States and the other major capitalist powers.

COP29 in Baku just concluded. Here’s your overview of the key outcomes. It covers: new climate finance commitments, adaptation, carbon markets, fossil fuels, and more.

The climate fight needs huge sums, and private investment, carbon markets and development banks can provide them.

Energy secretary Ed Miliband described the agreement as ‘critical’, but charities condemned the financial package for developing nations

When COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev stepped to the podium at the closing meeting of the Baku climate summit on Sunday morning, hoping to clinch a hard-fought agreement on global climate finance, he carried with him two speeches.

At COP29 in Baku, African nations spotlight the dire need for climate finance, clean energy, and equitable green growth.

COP29 secured a $300 billion climate finance goal and global carbon trading rules but lacked transformative action on key climate challenges.

The world approved a bitterly negotiated climate deal Sunday but poorer nations most at the mercy of worsening disasters dismissed a $300 billion a year pledge from wealthy historic polluters

Countries at the COP29 summit in Baku adopted a $300 billion a year global finance target on Sunday to help poorer nations cope with impacts of climate change, a deal its intended recipients criticised as woefully insufficient.