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.

African negotiators at the COP29 climate Summit in Baku, Azerbaijan are asking rich countries for $1.3 Trillion per year in climate finance.

One of the report's key projections is the global investment need for climate action, estimated at $6.3–6.7 trillion annually by 2030.

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.