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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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[-] OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 16 points 10 months ago

Cop29 will be the second year in a row that the UN’s most important climate talks will be hosted by a petrostate heavily reliant on fossil fuel production, after Cop28 was held in the United Arab Emirates.

Dang what a coincidence.

The head of Azerbaijan’s state gas distribution network is also on the committee.

How weird that this happened, what are the chances?

The Cop29 president-designate, who will be responsible for bringing together countries to drive climate action, is Mukhtar Babayev, the minister of ecology and natural resources.

Babayev previously spent 26 years working for the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (Socar). Azerbaijan plans to increase its fossil fuel production by a third over the next decade, the Guardian revealed recently.

Huh, wow. These crazy coincidences just keep happening.

[-] 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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