Women added to Cop29 climate summit committee after backlash | Panel was originally composed of 28 men, a move condemned as ‘regressive’ and ‘shocking’ (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 9 points 10 months ago

They happens because the location has to rotate across regions, and be agreed upon by consensus. Petrostates (most recently Russia) block non-petrostates from hosting.

[-] statist43@feddit.de 3 points 10 months ago

Do you have a source for that? Thats kind of fucked up

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 6 points 10 months ago

Here's what happened with the most recent one. Russia was vetoing every possibility, and then (after the article was published) said 'yes' to Azerbaijan

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