This year's United Nations climate summit, the Conference of the Parties (COP29) which starts in Azerbaijan this week, has been dubbed the "finance COP."

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told world leaders at the COP29 summit on Tuesday to "pay up" to prevent climate-led humanitarian disasters, and said time was running out to limit a destructive rise in global temperatures.

The U.N.'s chief tells world leaders at COP29 to 'pay up' or face 'disaster for humanity':::: Baku, Azerbaijan:: Antonio Guterres, U.N. Secretary General"The sound you hear is the ticking clock. We are in the final countdown to limit global temperature rise to 1.