COP29’s Poisoned Chalice? Chatham House’s Ruth Townend On Azerbaijan, COP, And Climate Leadership

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With COP29 in a few days all eyes turn to Baku a city with a complex relationship to fossil fuels where 125 years ago nearly half the world s oil was produced Today Azerbaijan finds itself hosting the world s largest climate summit a moment that exposes both the country s potential as a climate leader and the contradictions of its role as a petrostate In this episode of nbsp Wicked Problems Climate Tech Conversations I sat down with Ruth Townend Senior Research Fellow in Climate Diplomacy and Risk at Chatham House and host of their nbsp Climate Briefing nbsp podcast who is also the lead author of nbsp Azerbaijan s nbsp Climate Leadership nbsp Challenge nbsp a timely report for your reading list before COP29 that examines Azerbaijan s climate policy ambitions and the hurdles it faces as host Get more at wickedproblems earth Hosted on Acast See acast com privacy for more information Click here to visit this podcast episode

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