2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference
Yearly conference held for climate change treaty negotiations
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| 2025 | Deadline for countries to submit their enhanced Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) with a focus on fossil fuel phase-out, increasing renewable energy, and addressing non-carbon-dioxide emissions. |
| 2025 | Deadline for all countries to prepare and submit their National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), emphasizing the need for scaling up adaptation finance. |
| 2024 | Asian Development Bank announced $7.2 billion in additional investments and a $3.5 billion adaptation program targeting glacial melting in Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus. |
| 2024 | Climate Investment Funds launched a $75 billion bond issuance program on the London Stock Exchange. |
| 2024 | Association of Banks of Azerbaijan committed nearly $1.2 billion to support the country's low-carbon transition. |
| 2024 | World leaders ratified a framework under Article 6.4 of the Paris Agreement, establishing a UN-backed body to regulate international carbon credit trading. |
| 2024 | COP29 United Nations Climate Change Conference held with key objectives of implementing measures to limit global warming to 1.5°C and operationalizing the Loss and Damage Fund to support vulnerable communities. |
| 2024 | Delegations reached an agreement for a $300 billion annual climate finance pledge by 2035, aimed at helping developing countries access economic resources to address climate emissions and disasters. |
| November 23 2024 | The Guardian reported that a Saudi Arabian delegate allegedly attempted to modify an official negotiating text, which is typically circulated as a non-editable PDF. |
| November 22 2024 | COP29 concluded with a significant agreement on climate change finance, establishing rules for international carbon credit trading and creating a UN registry to facilitate sustainable energy transitions for developing nations. |
| November 14 2024 | The UN responded to complaints about the lack of vegan and vegetarian food options at the COP29 conference, with only a single food stall offering vegan meals. |
| November 11 2024 | Climate activist Greta Thunberg attended a protest rally in Tbilisi, Georgia, criticizing Azerbaijan's hosting of COP29 and highlighting concerns about the country's human rights record and fossil fuel industry. |
| November 11 2024 | The 29th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) commenced in Baku, Azerbaijan, with Mukhtar Babayev presiding and Samir Nuriyev heading the Organizing Committee. |
| October 2024 | Human Rights Watch revealed and publicly criticized the UN-Azerbaijan Host Country Agreement, highlighting Azerbaijan's efforts to silence critics and the arbitrary arrest of activists and journalists. |
| October 31 2024 | Papua New Guinea's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Justin Tkatchenko, announced a boycott of the COP29 summit, declaring it a 'total waste of time'. |
| October 11 2024 | Second day of the Pre-COP meeting, where leaders emphasized the need to cap global warming at 1.5°C, noting UN Environment Programme data suggesting existing climate pledges could allow a 2.9°C increase. |
| October 10 2024 | Azerbaijan hosted the annual Pre-COP meeting, with COP29 President-designate Mukhtar Babayev, COP28 President Sultan Al Jaber, and UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed discussing climate priorities, including a new climate finance goal and support for vulnerable communities. |
| August 2024 | UN and Azerbaijan signed the Host Country Agreement (HCA) for COP29, which Human Rights Watch later criticized for significant shortcomings in participant rights protections. |
| July 2024 | Azerbaijan announced the establishment of the Climate Finance Action Fund (CFAF), aiming to raise US$1 billion annually from fossil fuel-producing countries and companies to invest in renewable energy and climate projects in developing countries. |
| June 2024 | Amnesty International received a copy of COP28's Host Country Agreement, revealing significant shortcomings in human rights protections for conference participants. |
| June 2024 | At the Climate Change Conference in Bonn, United Nations Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell highlighted unresolved issues surrounding carbon credit systems and emission avoidance, emphasizing the need for further work before COP29. |
| April 2024 | Azerbaijan officially announced the Baku Olympic Stadium as the venue for the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29), revealing plans for a 112,000 m² event space capable of hosting approximately 80,000 attendees, including senior government officials. |
| February 22 2024 | Further expansion of the COP29 Organizing Committee occurred, with two additional men and eleven women added to the panel after criticism about gender representation. |
| January 2024 | Azerbaijan reportedly paid New York-based PR firm Teneo US$4.7 million to manage public relations for the COP29 event. |
| January 2024 | Mukhtar Babayev, a longtime official of Azeri state-owned oil company SOCAR and Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources, was appointed as president of COP29. |
| January 19 2024 | COP29 Organizing Committee composition was expanded, adding more members. |
| January 13 2024 | President of Azerbaijan established the COP29 Organizing Committee, initially comprising 28 men. |
| December 2023 | Azerbaijan was announced as the host of the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29). |
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