Activists rallied around a shared feeling of exclusion from the formal COP process, and concerns that the solutions that come out of it are harming their communities.

A group of high-level climate diplomats — including Christiana Figueres, who led the UN climate talks in Paris in 2015 — released an open letter Friday in the midst of COP29 calling for urgent reform of the summit process.

Pay up’ was the resounding call from hundreds of activists who staged a major rally at the UN climate summit on Saturday as negotiations on finance continued. Groups are calling on negotiators to deliver the $5 trillion needed annually by 2030 according to research by US think tank World Resources Institute - to help poor countries cope with the crisis.

T he future of nations that have banded together to fight climate change, which will endanger part of the human race, has already proven to be a failure. On paper, the US, part of