Azerbaijan names ex-oil executive to head climate talks

Baku (AFP) Jan 5, 2024

Global climate talks will be led for the second year in a row by a man with ties to the oil industry, after Azerbaijan named a minister to preside over the November COP29 meeting. Mukhtar Babayev, currently minister for ecology and natural resources and formerly an executive at state oil company SOCAR, "has been named president-designate for the 29th session of the conference of the parties"