Azerbaijan's presidency was expected to unveil one of its flagship \u2014 and most controversial \u2014 initiatives at COP29's "finance day": a new climate fund with money voluntarily contributed by countries and fossil fuel companies.<\/p>\n
But the Climate Finance Action Fund (CFAF) has all but disappeared from the agenda. When asked by Climate Home about this, Azerbaijan's chief negotiator, Jalchin Rafiyev, cryptically said that the COP hosts had formed a working group to "develop a concept that would be feasible and acceptable" to donor countries. (More on limatechangenews.com<\/span><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Azerbaijani presidency was expected to present one of its flagship \u2013 and most controversial \u2013 initiatives on COP29\u2019s \u201cfinance day\u201d: a new climate fund with money voluntarily contributed by fossil fuel countries and companies. But the Climate Finance Action Fund (CFAF) has all but disappeared from the agenda. When Climate Home asked Azerbaijan\u2019s chief negotiator, Yalchin [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cop28-cop29-cop30-cop31"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}