World leaders have gathered in Baku, for the COP29 climate negotiations.

The goal is clear: to maintain a liveable planet, we need to cut emissions as much and as urgently as possible.

The talks will focus on raising finance and ambition –both of which are clearly needed if we are to meet the Paris Climate Agreement’s target of holding global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees.

But if these negotiations don’t consider the many ways in which climate and conflict are intertwined, they remain wishful thinking.

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