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Climate finance deal reached at COP29

Days of bitter negotiations had extended the summit by more than 30 hours.

Days of bitter negotiations - that extended the summit by more than 30 hours - saw richer countries agree to raise their contribution to $300bn a year by 2035, for poorer countries most affected by climate change. Poorer countries had asked for $1.3 trillion to help them fight the climate battle.

Also on the programme: Romanians will shortly start voting in the first round of the country's presidential election; and we speak to the author of a new book about American author and poet Dorothy Parker.

Joining Krupa Padhy to discuss these stories and more are Catherine Bernard, professor of European Union law at the University of Cambridge, and John Lentaigne, head of credit & political risks at Tysers insurance brokerage in London.

(Photo: COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev holds a hammer during a closing plenary meeting at the COP29 summit in Baku, Azerbaijan on November 24, 2024. Credit: REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov)

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