What’s next on the road from Paris to Dubai for climate finance

President Emmanuel Macron’s two-day summit in Paris involved 40 world leaders, a concert headlined by Billie Eilish and a plan to overhaul the world’s financial system to tackle climate change and poverty — and left plenty of work for a hectic negotiations schedule leading up to the UN COP28 summit in Dubai.

What was missing from Paris last week was most of the G7 country leaders, and any substantial new finance or debt cancellation for poor countries suffering disproportionately from climate change. The proposals for reform presented were also criticised by non-profit groups representing some of those most affected as too modest or not concrete enough.