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Agence France-Presse

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Sunday called on G20 leaders gathering in Rio de Janeiro to rescue stalled concurrent UN climate talks in Azerbaijan by showing “leadership” on cutting emissions.
“A successful outcome at Cop29 is still within reach, but it will require leadership and compromise, namely from the G20 countries,” Guterres, who will attend the summit of the world’s biggest economies starting on Monday, told a press conference in Rio.
The annual UN talks in Baku are deadlocked at the midway point, with nations no closer to agreeing a US$1 trillion deal for climate investments in developing nations after a week of negotiations.
The talks are stuck over the final figure, the type of financing, and who should pay, with Western countries wanting China and wealthy Gulf states to join the list of donors.

All eyes have turned to Rio in the hope of a breakthrough.
“The spotlight is naturally on the G20. They account for 80 per cent of global emissions,” Guterres said, calling on the group to “lead by example”.
Climate was an issue advanced by several of the leaders as they converged on Rio.
US President Joe Biden, making a stopover in the Amazon, talked up US$11 billion in bilateral climate financing his administration has allocated this year.
He also – in a reference to president-elect Donald Trump taking over from him in two months – declared that “nobody” could reverse the “clean energy revolution” directed by his government.
European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in Rio jointly launched a campaign to boost renewable energies in Africa.
“Tripling renewables globally until 2030 would mean a cut of 10 billion tonnes of CO2 emissions,” von der Leyen said at an event put on by the advocacy group Global Citizen.
She said the EU was increasing investment around the world for the building of infrastructure of renewables, “specifically in Africa” through the bloc’s Global Gateway programme – designed to rival China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
The European Union is the world’s biggest contributor for climate financing, most of which goes through multilateral funds.
Chinese President Xi Jinping – whose country is the planet’s biggest polluter – made his own plea for the G20 to step up international cooperation against climate change.
The leaders of the world’s biggest economies should coordinate efforts in areas such as “green and low-carbon development, environmental protection, energy transition and climate change response,” he said in a tribune published in Brazil’s Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper.
The G20 should “provide more funding, technology and capacity-building support to Global South countries”, Xi said.
Brazil is hoping to channel the focus on climate in the two-day G20 summit for it to feature prominently in the meeting’s final declaration.
Marina Silva, Brazil’s environment minister, said it was “fundamental” that the G20 participants “do their homework” and see to it that the Cop29 negotiations move forward.


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UN General Secretary Antonio Guterres at a press conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ahead of the G20 Summit. Photo: AFP

China’s President Xi Jinping arrives at Galeao Air Base ahead of the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photo: G20 Brazil Press Office via AFP

Giant portraits of (left to right) US President Joe Biden, China’s President Xi Jinping, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, and Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, submerged by indigenous people to protest the lack of leadership among the world’s richest nations on addressing the anthropogenic climate and biodiversity crisis, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Saturday.

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Special Representative Ding Xuexiang, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chinese vice-premier, meets with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres during Cop29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Wednesday. Photo: Xinhua

US President Joe Biden meets with China’s President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Apec Summit in Lima, Peru, on Saturday. Photo: Reuters

US President Joe Biden in Marine One has an aerial tour of the Amazon in Manaus, Brazil. Photo: Reuters

US President Joe Biden signs a proclamation designating November 17 as ‘International Conservation Day’. Photo: Reuters

US President Joe Biden after signing the proclamation. Photo: AFP

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A G20 banner adorns city hall in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where leaders of the world’s largest economies will converge between November 18 and 19, 2024. Photo: AFP

People walk past a Taiwanese flag at Liberty Square in Taipei on October 22, 2024. The self-governing island, which Beijing sees as part of China to be reunited by force if necessary, is a flashpoint in Sino-US relations. Photo: EPA-EFE

Workers produce lithium batteries in Qinyang, Henan province, on October 8, 2024. The batteries are vital to making electric vehicles, one of many industries in which China and the US vie for global dominance. Photo: Xinhua

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Chinese President Xi Jinping deplanes in Callao, Peru, on Thursday to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. Photo: AP

Chinese citizens in Peru wait for Xi Jinping’s arrival at Jorge Chavez International Airport in Callao, outside Lima, on Thursday. Photo: AFP

Police in Peru form a shield wall as they encounter people protesting the Apec gathering in Lima. Photo: SCMP 

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Antonio Guterres said the spotlight was on G20 countries, which account for 80 per cent of global emissions


Antonio Guterres said the spotlight was on G20 countries, which account for 80 per cent of global emissions.
