BAKU, Azerbaijan — Countries agreed to a deal early Sunday that asks rich, developed nations to pay at least $300 billion a year by 2035 to help poorer countries shift their economies away from polluting fuels, bringing to a close two weeks of contentious talks that threatened at multiple points to fall apart.
It didn’t come easily, or without caustic criticism.
The figure is short of what developing countries had been calling for, and is not in line with the trillions that they’ll need over the next decade. But it was likely the best they could get at a time of geopolitical turbulence and hardening divides between wealthier and more impoverished nations, with a second Donald Trump era looming in Washington.
Developing countries responded with a mix of acceptance and anger.
