Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev has been praising fossil fuel and taking shots at geopolitical rivals, casting a cloud over the climate summit.

Countries at the COP29 summit tried to make progress on how to raise up to $1 trillion in climate finance for the world's most vulnerable, as political tensions overshadowed the talks and Argentina on Thursday pulled its delegation from Baku.

Climate activists say Germany must take the lead at the COP29 UN Climate Conference in Baku, despite the domestic government crisis gripping politics in the country. "We are looking to Germany and the EU and appealing to them to fulfil their responsibility,