Explainer-COP29 - How does $300 billion stack up?


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  • Sunday, 24 Nov 2024

A view during a closing plenary meeting at the COP29 United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Baku, Azerbaijan November 24, 2024. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

BAKU (Reuters) - Countries agreed at the U.N.'s COP29 climate conference to spend $300 billion on annual climate finance. Here are some ways of understanding what that sum is worth:

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