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The all-male committee in charge of the Cop29 organisation includes oil and gas executives and controversial government officials

Baku (AFP) Jan 5, 2024 - Global climate talks will be led for the second year in a row by a man with ties to the oil industry, after Azerbaijan named a minister to preside over the November COP29 meeting.

A minister with vast experience in oil and gas will lead negotiations at the U.N.’s most important annual climate conference for the second consecutive year.

A minister with vast experience in oil and gas will lead negotiations at the U.N.’s most important annual climate conference for the second consecutive year.

Mukhtar Babayev, Azerbaijan’s Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources, has been named as president-designate of the Cop29 climate conference. He will be the second oil executive in a row to head the…

The new year brings a renewed push from the Biden administration to implement major energy and climate laws.

Fossil fuel firms ‘took the mask off’ as they reneged on climate pledges and doubled down on expansion of planet-heating energy

This week, the U.S. Export-Import Bank approved $90 million for marketing a Freeport liquified natural gas project in Texas.

The roller coaster of this year’s United Nations Climate Conference (COP28) has ended with a historic new agreement: For the first time, world governments have said countries should transition away from fossil fuels. The deal comes after days of tense negotiations, especially over the fossil fuel language, which caused the Dubai conference to stretch into overtime. Climate…

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