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After Putin's blackmail over Bulgaria's candidacy, Baku was chosen as the venue for the summit scheduled for November 2024

COP 29, the twenty-ninth annual United Nations conference on the fight against climate change, will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan, between 11 and 22 November.For the first time, the event will take place in a former Soviet republic and will see between 40 and 50 thousand participants, including delegates, officials, political and economic and financial leaders and members of NGOs - an extremely high number, albeit lower than the 84 thousand participants at COP28 in Dubai last year.At the center of this year's event will be the discussion regarding funding, for which countries would be ready to negotiate a new global climate finance target, the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG).As with the United Arab Emirates last year, Azerbaijan appears unlikely to be a host country for the climate initiative.Its economy is largely dependent on the extraction of fossil fuel, while its political culture, authoritarian and resistant to critical examination, is at odds with the principles of transpare...

The first results of COP29, the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, do not seem to give much hope regarding a real possibility of change with respect to environmental policies.There are numerous partners of the event involved in the fossil energy sector, while the president of Azerbaijan (COP host country), Ilham Aliyev, himself defined oil and gas as a "gift from God".In this context, the first results of the Conference were an estimate of the investments necessary, by the Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), for the financing of sustainable policies by 2030 and the achievement of a official agreement on the global carbon market under the auspices of the United Nations.The latter, however, constitutes a form of true neocolonialism, as it is based on the exploitation of the lands and resources belonging to local communities to allow large companies to continue polluting undisturbed. The adoption of a global carbon market has been scope completed thanks to the work...