Baku, Azerbaijan, where COP 29 will be held.

This year’s UN Climate Change Conference (COP 29) kicks off on November 11 in Baku, Azerbaijan, with a focus on a cornerstone of global climate action—finance.

What’s on the agenda? Parties will be negotiating a New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG )—a more ambitious, transparent, and predictable climate finance target that better addresses the needs of developing countries for mitigation, adaptation, and loss and damage. There’s still much to settle, from the scale of funding to questions about responsibility: who contributes, and what exactly will the finance cover?

It’s also the last COP before the February 2025 deadline to update nationally determined contributions (NDCs), building momentum for ambitious national commitments. It is essential that NDCs reflect the outcomes of the global stocktake (GST) adopted at COP 28, notably the landmark decision to transition away from fossil fuels.  

Baku is a critical opportunity to accelerate global adaptation action as parties will be assessing progress of countries’ National Adaptation Plan (NAP) processes and identifying the way forward with a strong focus on implementation and support.  

Negotiators will also revisit Article 6 of the Paris Agreement , aiming to establish stronger rules for global emissions trading.

IISD will be closely monitoring these discussions, offering support to negotiations and delivering daily reports on the decisions shaping global climate action.
 

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Our COP 29 Experts

Nathalie Bernasconi

Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder

Vice-President, Global Strategies and Managing Director, Europe

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Anne Hammill

Associate Vice-President, Resilience

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Philip Gass

Director, Energy Program, Just Transitions and Canada

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Alec Crawford

Director, Nature for Resilience

Angie Daze, Senior Policy Advisor and Lead, Gender Equality

Angie Dazé

Director, Gender Equality and Social Inclusion for Resilience

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Alice Tipping

Director, Trade and Sustainable Development

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Lynn Wagner

Senior Director, Tracking Progress

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Anna Ackermann

Policy Analyst, Green Reconstruction of Ukraine

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Jennifer Allan

Writer/Editor, Earth Negotiations Bulletin

Jennifer Bansard

Jennifer Bansard

Writer, Earth Negotiations Bulletin

Ieva Barsauskaite

Ieva Baršauskaitė

Lead, Trade and the Green Transition

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Christopher Beaton

Director, Energy Program, Public Financial Flows

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Emilie Beauchamp

Lead, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning for Adaptation to Climate Change

Olivier Bois von Kursk, IISD Policy Analyst

Olivier Bois von Kursk

Policy Advisor

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Aia Brnic

Communications Manager

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Liesbeth Casier

Lead, Public Procurement and Sustainable Infrastructure and Coordinator of the NBI Global Resource Centre

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Aurélie Ceinos

Senior Policy Advisor, Gender Equality and Social Inclusion

Aaron Cosbey

Aaron Cosbey

Senior Associate

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Megan Darby

Senior Communications Officer

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Julie Dekens

Principal Researcher

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Nichole Dusyk

Senior Policy Advisor and Lead, Canada Energy

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Siddharth Goel

Lead, Electric Mobility & Renewable Energy Supply Chains

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Orville Grey

Head of Secretariat, NAP Global Network

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David Hoffmann

Coordinator, NAP Global Network

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Natalie Jones

Policy Advisor

Jonas Kuehl

Jonas Kuehl

Policy Advisor

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Tara Laan

Lead, Incentivizing Renewables

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Christian Ledwell

Knowledge Manager, NAP Global Network

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Mauricio Luna Rodríguez

Senior Policy Advisor, Climate Change Adaptation Governance

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Claire McConnell

Policy Advisor

Greg Muttitt

Greg Muttitt

Senior Associate

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Juliet Perry

Communications Manager

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Jeffrey Qi

Policy Advisor I

Alexandra Readhead is Lead, Tax and Extractives with IISD’s Economic Law and Policy Program.

Alexandra Readhead

Director, Tax and Sovereign Debt

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Paulina Resich

Senior Communications Manager

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Shruti Sharma

Lead, Affordable Energy

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Benjamin Simmons

Director, Sustainable Infrastructure

David Uszoki

David Uzsoki

Lead, Sustainable Finance

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Farooq Ullah

Senior Policy Advisor and Lead, Energy and Climate Governance

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Vance Culbert

Senior Policy Advisor & Secretariat Manager, COFFIS