Climate-vulnerable islands storm out of COP29 negotiation room in row over funding

Representatives of dozens of climate vulnerable islands and African nations have stormed out of high-stakes negotiations over a climate funding goal.

The more than 200 countries gathered in Baku, Azerbaijan, are trying to agree a new financial settlement to channel money to developing countries to both curb and adapt to climate change.

The least developed countries like Mozambique and low-lying island nations like Samoa say a portion of the fund should be allocated to them, given they are bearing the brunt of climate impacts like rising seas and drought.

Samoa’s minister of natural resources and environment Toeolesulusulu Cedric Schuster is one of the representatives who walked out.

“We have just walked out, we came here to this COP for a fair deal and we feel we haven’t been heard,” he said.

“We are here to negotiate but we have walked out… at the moment we don’t feel we are being heard in there.”

Talks have now run well into overtime at COP29, but a deal now feels much more precarious.

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