Political shenanigans, unrealistically lofty ambitions on financing and economies digging their heels on fossil fuels largely upended possibility of consensus at COP29.

COPs have been getting progressively longer; the excellent team at Carbon Brief extrapolated the trend line, which suggests COP29 will end in the small hours of Sunday morning. Even that may be optimistic.

A document that came out from COP 29 today states trillions of dollars will be provided and mobilized for climate finance. Understand the discussions behind this outcome.

The United Nations climate body published on Thursday fresh options for the COP29 summit's primary goal of agreeing how much money richer countries should provide poorer ones to help them tackle climate change.