The UN COP29 conference opened in Baku on Monday, with Donald Trump's re-election casting a shadow over talks centred on negotiating new climate funding for poorer countries.

Countries at the UN COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan are due to replace a goal initially agreed in 2009. Back then, developed nations pledged to provide $100bn annually in climate financing for developing countries by 2020,

The United Nations Climate Change Conference began in Azerbaijan on Monday with a warning that global negotiators gathered in Baku must make significant steps to strengthen action on climate change. "We cannot leave Baku without a substantial outcome,