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Fiona Harvey

Fiona Harvey is an environment editor at the Guardian

24 November 2024

  • Climate activists holding up placards with slogans including 'Global North pay up!', 'Trillions not Billions' and 'Global South hold the line'.

    Cop29 climate finance deal likely to be followed by equally bitter battles

    Rich countries still need convincing that giving money to poorer nations is very much in their interests too

23 November 2024

  • Mukhtar Babayev, the Cop29 president, bangs a gavel during the closing plenary.

    Cop29: Climate finance deal agreed but talks remain deeply divided – as it happened

  • Cop29 president Mukhtar Babayevat at the closing plenary meeting

    Cop29 agrees $1.3tn climate finance deal but campaigners brand it a ‘betrayal’

  • A group of young people with a cardboard banner denouncing fossil fuels, wave their hands, showing 'Pay Up' written on their palms

    Row over who will pay $1tn climate fund drags Cop29 talks past the deadline

  • US climate envoy John Podesta and deputy Sue Biniaz head into an elevator at Cop29 in Baku, Azerbaijan

    Cop29: wealthy countries agree to raise climate finance offer to $300bn a year

22 November 2024

  • Activists demonstrate against a draft deal for curbing climate change at Cop29 in Baku, Azerbaijan.

    Developing countries urged to reject ‘bad deal’ as Cop29 climate talks falter

  • Activists participate in a demonstration for climate finance at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Friday, Nov. 22, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

    Cop 29: new draft text criticised as ‘totally unacceptable and inadequate’ – as it happened

  • People looking at papers and laptops

    Cop29: $250bn climate finance offer from rich world an insult, critics say

  • Activists react while holding posters at the summit

    UAE urges countries to honour fossil fuels vow amid Cop29 impasse

21 November 2024

  • Activists at the Cop29 summit.

    Poor nations may have to downgrade climate cash demands, ex-UN envoy says

    Rich country budgets are stretched amid inflation, Covid and Ukraine war, Mary Robinson tells Cop29
  • A demonstrator holds a sign that reads ‘climate justice now’ during Cop29

    Cop29: UN chair ‘so sick’ of Saudi Arabia’s defence of fossil fuels – as it happened

    Former climate minister for Canada reacts after Saudi delegation said it ‘will not accept any text that targets any specific sectors, including fossil fuels’
  • A man stands in front of the Cop29 logo

    Cop29 climate finance deal hits fresh setback as deadline looms

    Outcry after draft text contains only an ‘X’ instead of setting $1tn funding goal to support developing countries

20 November 2024

  • A line of flags outside a venue holding Cop29 events in Baku, Azerbaijan

    Australia and Turkey in standoff to be host of crucial 2026 climate talks

  • People holding posters saying 'cancel the debt'

    Cop29: campaigners say talks are ‘reaching point of real emotion’ – as it happened

19 November 2024

  • China's pavilion at Cop29

    China and India should not be called developing countries, several Cop29 delegates say

    Delegates from poorer nations say classifications that date back to 1992 are obsolete and two countries ‘should be contributing’
  • Activists demonstrate at the Cop29 climate summit.

    Cop29 live: Slashing methane emissions is ‘our emergency brake’, UN says – as it happened

    Cop29 presidency announces new drive to cut methane emissions from waste dumps as G20 reaffirms transition from fossil fuels
  • Climate activists attend a joint action at Cop29 in Baku, holding up signs that say ‘Light up Africa’ and ‘Renewables Now’

    ‘It is feasible’: climate finance won’t burden rich countries, say economists

    Experts say mix of taxes with development bank and private funding can provide $1tn a year needed by 2030

18 November 2024

  • Members of Greenpeace International display personal items and symbolic objects impacted by extreme weather and the climate crisis.

    Cop29: ministers told to ‘cut theatrics’, ‘move faster’ and ‘get down to business’ amid growing frustration at slow progress – as it happened

  • Simon Stiell arrives to speak to the media at Cop29 in Baku, Azerbaijan

    Cop29 delegates told to ‘cut the theatrics’ and tackle climate crisis

17 November 2024

  • Jochen Flasbarth smiling

    Countries must set aside differences and agree climate finance deal, says Cop29 negotiator

    Jochen Flasbarth called on Cop29 delegates to press on as world faces increasing crises and drop in solidarity
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