The European Union, the U.S. and other wealthy countries raised their offer of climate funding for developing nations to $300 billion a year at COP29 on Saturday, in a bid to unlock increasingly tense negotiations already a day into overtime.

BAKU - The world’s most climate-imperilled nations stormed out of consultations in protest at the deadlocked UN COP29 conference on Nov 23, as simmering tensions over a hard-fought finance deal erupted into the open.

A draft deal at the U.N. Climate Change Conference calls for wealthy nations to give developing ones $250 billion a year starting in 2035.