Azerbaijan is the host of the UN's climate conference, shining a spotlight on the petrostate
The spotlight is on Azerbaijan as the small petrostate in the South Caucasus hosts the U.N.’s biggest climate conference. Diplomats from across the world will descend on the capital Baku for the annual climate summit,
COP29, the U.N. conference on climate change, underway in Azerbaijan
The United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP29, is underway in Azerbaijan at a time when the U.S. is producing more oil than any country and is expected to produce more when President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated in January. Bernadette Woods ...
Taliban Administration Officials to Attend UN Climate Conference in Azerbaijan
The U.N. has not allowed the Taliban to take up Afghanistan's seat at the General Assembly, and Afghanistan's government is not formally recognised by U.N. member states, largely due to the Taliban's restrictions on women's education and freedom of movement.
What will this year's COP29 conference do to address climate change on a global level?
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As Azerbaijan hosts UN climate conference, analysts point to poor rights record
As officials from around the world gather in Baku for the United Nations climate change conference, civil society groups are highlighting Azerbaijan’s poor human rights record, including the jailings of more than a dozen journalists over the past year.
Azerbaijan is hosting the U.N. climate conference, putting the authoritarian petrostate in spotlight
Diplomats from across the world head to Azerbaijan for the annual climate summit, known as COP29. Critics allege greenwashing ...
Climate talks open in Azerbaijan with calls for a path away from the ‘road to ruin’
In Azerbaijan, where the world’s first oil well was drilled and the smell of fuel was noticeable outdoors, the talks were ...
Oil and gas are gift of god, Azerbaijan president tells climate summit
Oil and gas are a “gift of god”, Azerbaijan ’s president Ilham Aliyev told the Cop29 climate conference on Tuesday. Speaking ...
UN climate talks haven’t improved Earth’s climate prognosis in 3 years
For the third straight year, efforts to fight climate change haven't lowered projections for how hot the world is likely to ...
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Greta Thunberg protests against Azerbaijan hosting global climate summit
as Baku hosts the COP29 U.N. Climate Conference. (AP Photo/Zurab Tsertsvadze) Climate activist Greta Thunberg labelled ...
COP29 climate talks urged to find $1 trillion a year for poorer countries
Money is a central focus of the climate talks being held in Azerbaijan and the success of the summit is likely to be judged ...
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Argentina’s president withdraws country's delegation from UN Climate Change Conference
Argentina's President Javier Milei on Wednesday ordered his negotiators to withdraw from the COP29 UN Climate Change ...
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At COP29, It's About More Than the Climate | Opinion
As global leaders convene in Baku this month for the COP29 climate conference, they may be tempted to focus on saving the planet and ignore the odious nature of the conference's host.
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Climate COP Out?
Show more Today we look at the COP29 climate conference in Azerbaijan. World leaders, diplomats and climate ...