From the city of Baku’s shoreline along the Caspian Sea, amid restaurants and high end hotels, Azerbaijan’s relationship with fossil fuels is plain to see by the rigs and tankers that dot the horizon.
Azerbaijan, one of the birthplaces of the modern fossil fuel industry, will become another oil and gas exporter tasked with hosting the annual round of United Nations climate talks when delegates and world leaders descend on COP29 in Baku this November. The former Soviet republic of 10 million people follows the United Arab Emirates, which held the event last year.
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