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COP29 begins today: What is the point of the UN climate conference?

Climate change will affect every country, regardless of whether it contributed to the problem, it demands global solutions to address the diversity of needs across countries. In signing 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change that launched the global negotiations, the parties that agreed to it took pains to differentiate between the wealthy nations that caused the bulk of warming and poorer countries that suffer disproportionately from it.