Mid-way through a global ‘super-year’ of elections and in the context of new institutional and programming cycles for the EU and AU, the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP29) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is set to be hosted in Baku, Azerbaijan, at which parties are expected to agree on a crucial New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance (NCQG).