French and Russian presidents will not attend landmark climate summit in Azerbaijan - UN sources.
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00:00Sources close to the U.N. informed Euronews that Russian President Vladimir Putin and
00:07French President Emmanuel Macron will not attend the landmark U.N. climate summit in
00:11Baku this month.
00:13More than 100 leaders confirmed their attendance to COP-29 in Azerbaijan, where they will review
00:19the climate goal set nine years ago in Paris, which aims to keep the global temperature
00:24rise a century well below 2 degrees Celsius.
00:28From Europe, leaders from Czechia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland and Spain
00:34have said they will attend.
00:37This year's COP has been dubbed the finance cop.
00:40The key issue up for debate is who pays the trillions of dollars developing countries
00:44need in order to cope with increasingly extreme weather while avoiding the reliance on fossil
00:49fuels.
00:51The White House confirmed earlier that U.S. President Joe Biden will also not be attending
00:56the climate summit.