<p>The 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), dubbed the &lsquo;Finance COP&rsquo;, carried the weighty responsibility of defining a new climate finance goal&mdash; the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) to respond to the urgency and scale of the climate crisis while aligning with the broader objectives of the Paris Agreement.</p>
