Cop29 live: Slashing methane emissions is ‘our emergency brake’, UN says – as it happened

Cop29 presidency announces new drive to cut methane emissions from waste dumps as G20 reaffirms transition from fossil fuels

We’re winding up the Cop liveblog for today now. The overriding feeling from negotiators has been frustration as progress continues to prove elusive. Everyone wants to make a deal, but it remains to be seen if they actually can achieve it.

The main events today:

• As day eight began, the climate talks entered the phase known as the ‘valley of death’

• Raising funds to finance climate fight is feasible, economists say from my colleague Fiona Harvey

• Cop was boosted as G20 reaffirms transition from fossil fuels, although some felt the Brazil meeting could have gone much further

• The UK government has conceded that Australia was mistakenly included on a list of countries that were expected to sign up to a US-UK civil nuclear deal agreed at Cop29 on Monday

• Analysis showed that hundreds of lobbyists for industrial agriculture were attending the Cop29 climate summit in Baku

• UK, New Zealand, and Colombia join coalition to phase out fossil fuel subsidies

Cover photo: By The Guardian