Money is the medicine that will cure climate change, poor countries say

The four of us walked, on average, between 11,000 and 13,000 steps a day during our time at COP29. That works out to between eight and nine kilometres every day (because we don’t all take equally big steps).About a third of our steps (translating to about 3km) was spent on walking to the train and bus that would take us to the stadium — the rest of the distance we covered in a day was from walking around at the conference to get to sessions, interview sources for stories, going to the bathroom or the coffee stalls for a break, or even just walking to the printers dotted around the…