Climate activists in Baku arranged giant letters on Thursday to spell out the message 'Pay Up' at COP 29. They staged their protest from the empty seats of an Olympic stadium, while negotiators below at the same venue discussed the financial future of climate action at COP29,

Pay up’ was the resounding call from hundreds of activists who staged a major rally at the UN climate summit on Saturday as negotiations on finance continued. Groups are calling on negotiators to deliver the $5 trillion needed annually by 2030 according to research by US think tank World Resources Institute - to help poor countries cope with the crisis.

T he future of nations that have banded together to fight climate change, which will endanger part of the human race, has already proven to be a failure. On paper, the US, part of