COP29 Bickers Over Money While the World Burns: Mark Gongloff

Once and future President Donald Trump might be withdrawing the US from global leadership in the fight against climate change, but nobody at the latest United Nations climate confab seems interested in taking the job. Where it truly counts — financially — everybody’s shirking responsibility. The whole world will suffer as a result.

COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, was always going to be a fight about money, and so far it’s going about as well as you’d expect a money fight to go. Developed nations have been loath to pitch in more than $100 billion a year in total to slow emissions and help developing ...