COP29 delegates had been hoping that the leaders—including all key players representing different view points on climate finance negotiations—would offer some directions on resolving the deadlock

Leading economists have warned that poorer nations need a sixfold increase in international finance for climate action by 2030, and that any delay in providing it will only cost more. The Independent High-Level Expert Group,

The high-level diplomatic push for climate action shifted southward on Tuesday as G20 leaders meeting in Rio sent a clear signal to negotiating teams at stalled UN climate talks in Baku on the need to rapidly and substantially ‘scale up climate finance from billions to trillions from all sources.

The G20 leaders said they "commit to successful negotiations in Baku" but promised little else to unblock fraught cliamte talks

The U.N.'s climate chief called on leaders of the world's biggest economies on Saturday to send a signal of support for global climate finance efforts when they meet in Rio de Janeiro next week, to help trigger a deal at COP29 talks.

With negotiations on climate finance in Baku at a standstill, leaders are turning to the G20 meeting in Brazil for a breakthrough .

Figuring out what form that funding takes, who pays and how much is central to the COP29 talks. With a notional Friday deadline looming, frustration over the lack of progress so far was starting to seep out of the negotiating rooms.

As time runs out on COP29, negotiators are stalled on the same questions that brought them to Baku: How much money to raise for climate action in developing countries, and how to raise it. The main point of contention,