U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday called on all parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to manage differences and work together to achieve new climate finance targets -- the primary task of the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP29) to the UNFCCC.

Finance deal remains elusive at Cop29 as UN climate talks stretch into overtime - Negotiations at Cop29 in Baku, Azerbaijan were scheduled to finish on Friday evening but a final deal on climate finance remains elusive.