COP29, this year's biggest environmental conference, is now underway. Here is how leaders from around the world are coming together to advance global climate efforts.

"Let us ask ourselves, what if this was my home, my family? This shared sense of humanity should inspire us to work towards tangible, transformative outcomes over the coming days, ensuring that COP29 concludes with meaningful progress.

As COP29 aims to set a much higher climate financing target for the years ahead, wealthy nations insist the money cannot come entirely from their budgets.

Hundreds of activists protested at the UN climate summit in Azerbaijan on Saturday, demanding more justice in the climate crisis and for Palestinians. The protesters marched with banners in a long procession through the conference building in the Azerbaijani capital Baku.

Pay up’ was the resounding call from hundreds of activists who staged a major rally at the UN climate summit on Saturday as negotiations on finance continued. Groups are calling on negotiators to deliver the $5 trillion needed annually by 2030 according to research by US think tank World Resources Institute - to help poor countries cope with the crisis.

T he future of nations that have banded together to fight climate change, which will endanger part of the human race, has already proven to be a failure. On paper, the US, part of

Activists rallied around a shared feeling of exclusion from the formal COP process, and concerns that the solutions that come out of it are harming their communities.