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COP29 criticised for failing to meet scale of climate challenge

The finance deal agreed has drawn heated reaction from developing nations.

The finance deal agreed has drawn heated reaction from developing nations. Nigeria's envoy Nkiruka Maduekwe described the deal as an "insult".

Also on the programme: Lebanon's health ministry has said at least fifty people died in Israeli airstrikes on Saturday, many of them in central Beirut; and we get a taste of a piece of classical music by British composer Imogen Holst that had never been heard in public before.

Joining Krupa Padhy to discuss these stories and more are Catherine Bernard, professor of European Union law at the University of Cambridge, and John Lentaigne, head of credit & political risks at Tysers insurance brokerage in London.

(Photo: COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev at the COP29 summit in Baku, Azerbaijan on November 24, 2024. Credit: REUTERS/Murad Sezer)

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The Man Booker International 2018

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