Papua New Guinea did not attend the meeting, stating that the COP meetings “are a total waste of time”. The Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) staged a walkout from COP29 the day before ...

At the end, the agreement was to transition the world away from fossil fuels – meaning all fossil fuels – which was a first in a UN-sponsored COP meeting. OPEC had urged their members to ...

Over the past few years, annual COP meetings made some progress on advancing the carbon trading rules. For example, COP26 in Glasgow, held in 2021, established an independent supervisory body.