Climate funding divisions laid bare as COP29 deadline looms

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : FOSSIL FUELSSome negotiators also said Thursday's proposals failed to uphold a pledge made at last year's Dubai summit to transition away from fossil fuels, hailed at the time as a landmark moment.
56% : Alongside finance, the future of fossil fuels is at the heart of COP29, where it has stirred disagreement from day one.
54% : Human activities - mainly, the burning of fossil fuels - have helped raise the planet's long-term average temperature by about 1.3 degrees Celsius (2.3 degrees Fahrenheit) since pre-industrial times, driving disastrous floods, hurricanes, droughts and extreme heatwaves.
52% : The climate finance deal document gave a clue to the future of fossil fuels, with wording on phasing out "inefficient fossil fuel subsidies ... as soon as possible".
48% : The latest draft text of the Dubai pact referred to "transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems" but did not set out clear next steps.
46% : One European negotiator told Reuters that work on mitigation, or reducing carbon emissions and curbing global warming, was "backsliding" from Dubai.

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