UN Climate Chief Asks G20 Leaders for Boost

World looks to G20 in Rio for breakthrough in climate talks
Diplomatic tensions over global warming will take center stage at the G20 summit in Brazil this week, as negotiators at U.N. talks in Azerbaijan hit an impasse on climate finance that they hope leaders of the world's 20 major economies can break.
UN Climate Chief Asks G20 Leaders for Boost as COP29 Finance Talks Lag
The plea, made in a letter to G20 leaders from UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell, comes as negotiators at the COP29 conference in Baku struggle in their negotiations for a deal intended to scale up money to address the worsening impacts of global warming.
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