Azerbaijan COP29 Opening (CR)
Presidency of UN climate talks handed over from UAE to Azerbaijan
By COP29 HOST BROADCASTER
Published - Nov 11, 2024, 05:26 AM ET
Last Updated - Dec 16, 2024, 05:31 PM EST
COP29 began in Azerbaijan on Monday with a speech from its president Mukhtar Babayev, who addressed delegates warning the world was on the "road to ruin." Curbing and coping with climate change's worsening heat, floods, droughts and storms will cost trillions of dollars and poor nations just don't have it, numerous reports and experts calculate.
