November 20, 2024

-by Gwynne Dyer
    It’s hard to imagine a less plausible venue for the annual UN-sponsored conference on climate than the dictatorial petrostate of Azerbaijan. Baku, the capital, has a walled medieval centre that’s worth a day or two, but offshore the shallow Caspian Sea is littered with a century’s worth of old and new oil wells.
    How did this year’s conference, COP29, end up in Baku? Well, it was the turn of some country in the region formerly ruled by the Russian empire/S…

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