Tag: COP29

COP29 — the 29th UN Climate Change Conference — was held in Baku, Azerbaijan in November 2024. Azerbaijan’s hosting of the summit drew widespread criticism from environmental advocates and human rights organizations, who argued that an oil-dependent petrostate responsible for the ethnic cleansing of Armenians from Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) one year earlier was an inappropriate venue for a global climate conference.

Groong episodes covering COP29 examine the political controversy surrounding Baku’s hosting of the summit, Azerbaijan’s use of the event to rehabilitate its international image, the response of Western governments, and what the summit’s location in Baku signaled about international accountability for Azerbaijan’s actions in Nagorno Karabakh.