African countries should be asking for more than money in Baku

People walk at the entrance of the United Nations climate change conference COP29, in Baku, Azerbaijan on November 11, 2024.

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As a mammoth COP29 got under way this week, delegates from developing countries converged on Baku, the capital city of host Azerbaijan, armed with concrete positions of what exactly they want from the conference.

Dubbed the “finance COP” this year’s event will be seeking agreement on what it will cost to wean the world off fossil fuels and how the tab will be split.