A worker walks near a sign ahead of the COP29 UN Climate Summit, Saturday, Nov. 9, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan.The United Nations’ 29th annual summit on tackling climate change has just begun in Azerbaijan’s capital of Baku – but have we lost faith in it?The meeting, known as COP29, is intended to facilitate urgent, global cooperation on climate change, and governments are meant work together to keep environmental warming to 1.5C on pre-industrial levels.This year, negotiators from nearly 200 countries are looking to hash out a climate finance deal in an effort to fund poorer countries who are still struggling to go green.But, almost three decades since the climate summit began, scientists are still sounding alarm and pleadin
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