COP29: Clashes over cash are set to dominate the climate conference

In just a few days’ time, thousands of delegates from almost every country on Earth will arrive in Baku, Azerbaijan, for the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference.

The meeting is a chance for countries to come together and thrash out the international response to rising global temperatures, against a backdrop of record-breaking temperatures, devastating storms, flooding, heatwaves and droughts.

These climate summits, known as Conferences of the Parties (COPs), are notorious for being a world unto…