Who are the key voices at the COP29 climate summit in Baku?

Here are some of the major players and negotiating blocs involved in the COP29 summit starting November 11 in Baku, Azerbaijan

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Although the world’s second largest economy after the United States, China retains the developing country designation in UN climate negotiations that began in the 1990s. US negotiators from the outgoing Biden Administration, led by White House senior adviser John Podesta, will represent the country at COP29.

Although the Biden Administration has provided hundreds of billions of dollars for climate change mitigation and adaptation through the Inflation Reduction Act, the US has continued to break records as the world’s biggest oil and gas producer during his presidency.The 27-country EU has not yet offered its position on some of the most divisive issues for COP29.

The country, which hosted the COP26 summit in Glasgow in 2021, has promised to submit its next set of emissions-cutting pledges for 2035 at the Baku summit, three months before it is due in February. Each country has asked for more climate financing through the concept of “common but differentiated responsibilities” — meaning rich countries that emitted the most historically should do more to address the problem.This alliance of 77 developing countries and China also says rich countries have a bigger responsibility to cut CO2 than poorer nations.

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