Watch: Starmer unveils UK’s ambitious climate change goal at COP29 conference
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Your support makes all the difference.Watch again as Sir Keir Starmer unveilED the UK’s climate goals at the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) on Tuesday, 12 November.
The UK prime minister and Volodymyr Zelensky were among world leaders to address the conference in Baku.
Diplomats travelled to Azerbaijan to negotiate money needed to deal with climate crisis following a year of devastating weather extremes and record heat waves.
The climate conference began on Monday with stark warnings about the deteriorating state of the planet and an undercurrent of anxiety over Donald Trump’s return to the White House.
The president-elect’s campaign team has indicated Mr Trump would withdraw the US — the world’s second biggest polluter — from the landmark Paris Agreement, which he also did during his last term.
This year, the Taliban were among those attending the conference.
The Taliban has been invited to the talks to “potentially participate in periphery discussion and potentially hold bilateral meetings”, according to a diplomatic source.
This comes despite the UN not recognising the Taliban as Afghanistan’s legitimate leaders.
A Number 10 spokesperson said Sir Keir has “no plans to meet with them”, adding that attendance is a “matter for the organisers”.
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