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Azerbaijan chosen to host Cop29 after fraught negotiations | Climate activists likely to be concerned by another fossil fuel-reliant country taking over summit presidency (www.theguardian.com)
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oil and gas production accounted for nearly half of Azerbaijan’s GDP and more than 92.5% of its export revenue last year

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[–] sodalite@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

why do they keep picking the worst perpetrators of climate damage to host these, makes no sense

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 years ago

Because it requires both regional rotation and consensus on a locatoon. Consensus has usually been treated as requirement for unanimity. So petrostates keep rejecting locations until they get a petrostate approved.