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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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[–] Stamau123@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Well, back to forgetting COP even existed, I guess

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Anybody know, how was Bulgaria persuaded to give up trying for COP29 ?
If there was no agreement within E.Europe group, it would have gone back to Bonn by default (which is hardly good for Russia).

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Russia vetoed them:

It has so far blocked Bulgaria, Slovenia and Moldova from hosting next year’s summit and is unlikely to approve any country in the European Union.

You think something more happened?

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They didn't have to agree like that - afaik, there is a default procedure that without host-region consensus COP goes to Bonn (location of UNFCCC secretariat). So did EU agree internally to Bulgaria's giving up - maybe related Azeri gas? Did P's flying visit to AbuDhabi twist some arms?

[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Bulgaria doesn't produce enough oil to be considered. They need a host country that relies on fossil fuel production. They want to showcase oil-based economies as "leading the way" in fighting climate change, despite the opposite being true. It is part of their grift.

The purpose of COP is to protect fossil fuel interests by placating the public into thinking everything is just fine.

[–] 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.