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FILE - Activists participate in a demonstration for climate finance at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Nov. 21, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits, File)

FILE - Activists participate in a demonstration for climate finance at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Nov. 21, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits, File)

FILE - Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley, from front left, United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Simon Stiell, United Nations climate chief, Antonio Guterres, United Nations secretary-general, Ilham Aliyev, Azerbaijan president, Turkey President Recep Tayyip and Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif pose with others for a group photo at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

FILE - Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley, from front left, United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Simon Stiell, United Nations climate chief, Antonio Guterres, United Nations secretary-general, Ilham Aliyev, Azerbaijan president, Turkey President Recep Tayyip and Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif pose with others for a group photo at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

FILE - A man collects items along a polluted coastal area in Metro Manila, Philippines, Sept. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)

FILE - A man collects items along a polluted coastal area in Metro Manila, Philippines, Sept. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)

FILE - Signs of drought are visible on the Amazon River, near Santa Sofia, Colombia, Oct. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia, File)

FILE - Signs of drought are visible on the Amazon River, near Santa Sofia, Colombia, Oct. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia, File)

FILE - Juliet Kabera, third from right, director general of the Rwanda Environment Management Authority, Anthony Agotha, special envoy for Climate and Environment Diplomacy, European Union, Panama's Juan Carlos Monterrey, Olga Givernet, French Delegate Minister for Energy and Mexico's Camila Zepeda pose after a news conference at the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution in Busan, South Korea, Dec. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

FILE - Juliet Kabera, third from right, director general of the Rwanda Environment Management Authority, Anthony Agotha, special envoy for Climate and Environment Diplomacy, European Union, Panama's Juan Carlos Monterrey, Olga Givernet, French Delegate Minister for Energy and Mexico's Camila Zepeda pose after a news conference at the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution in Busan, South Korea, Dec. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

FILE - Ann Carlotta Oltmanns pretends to resuscitate the Earth during a demonstration at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Nov. 18, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

FILE - Ann Carlotta Oltmanns pretends to resuscitate the Earth during a demonstration at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Nov. 18, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

FILE - A demonstrator displays hands that read "pay up" during a protest for climate finance at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Nov. 23, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File)

FILE - A demonstrator displays hands that read "pay up" during a protest for climate finance at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Nov. 23, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File)

FILE - People arrive for the day at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Nov. 19, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File)

FILE - People arrive for the day at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Nov. 19, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File)

FILE - People pass by a sign calling for a reduction in plastic production near the venue for the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution in Busan, South Korea, Nov. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

FILE - People pass by a sign calling for a reduction in plastic production near the venue for the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution in Busan, South Korea, Nov. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)