Cat Pettengell is executive director of Climate Action Network UK (CAN-UK), which brings together international development and environment organisations in the UK working at the nexus of poverty-nature-climate to advocate for climate justice and sustainable development for all.
CAN-UK is the UK node of Climate Action Network (CAN), a global network of more than 1,900 civil society organisations in over 130 countries driving collective and sustainable action to fight the climate crisis and to achieve social and racial justice.
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The new climate finance goal agreed at COP29 is a betrayal of developing countries
As COP29 ends, Climate Action Network UK’s Catherine Pettengell takes us through why the outcomes were nowhere near enough, how the headlines generated were misleading, and what the UK government needs to do now on climate finance.
COP29 must deliver a step change for climate finance – the UK must step up
COP29 requires much more from the UK on climate finance to fulfil manifesto commitments to climate leadership and to reset the UK’s relationship with Global South partners. CAN UK’s Catherine Pettengell tells us more.
G7 finance needed to unlock progress on climate action before COP29
Without money on the table or willingness to act on the agreements already made, the path to an ambitious new climate finance goal at COP29 in Azerbaijan remains unclear.