Nobody is going to really talk about preserving climate in Baku of all places. The only areas not similar to Mordor polluted wasteland in Azerbaijan are not Azerbaijan, they are occupied Artsakh and sparsely populated mountains, villages with sheep and all, to the north of it. And the main reason they remained kinda green is that they were not controlled by Azeris.
It’s only called a climate conference, in fact it’s a meeting for Azeris to make deals on selling their oil or something.
COP29 is held in Azerbaijan. People are talking as if Taliban going there were weird, but holding any such event in a country culturally and ecologically most similar to Mordor seems weirder.
Either Armenia or Azerbaijan could host it, Armenia endorsed Azerbaijan in exchange for them releasing another portion of hostages (the 2020 ceasefire agreement says that all PoWs must be released, so they are hostages ; and of course people captured after that are).
So in this particular case, apparently, kickbacks did not play a significant role. Which is actually rare for Azerbaijan.
Maybe they’re hoping for a “This is what your country will look like if everyone continues to ignore this problem” reaction from the attendees?
Not necessarily hoping, but this is a useful effect actually.
Nobody is going to really talk about preserving climate in Baku of all places. The only areas not similar to Mordor polluted wasteland in Azerbaijan are not Azerbaijan, they are occupied Artsakh and sparsely populated mountains, villages with sheep and all, to the north of it. And the main reason they remained kinda green is that they were not controlled by Azeris.
It’s only called a climate conference, in fact it’s a meeting for Azeris to make deals on selling their oil or something.
How did you switch to Azerbaijan?
COP29 is held in Azerbaijan. People are talking as if Taliban going there were weird, but holding any such event in a country culturally and ecologically most similar to Mordor seems weirder.
Maybe they’re hoping for a “This is what your country will look like if everyone continues to ignore this problem” reaction from the attendees?
Or maybe it’s just the place that offered the most kickbacks to the organizers…
Either Armenia or Azerbaijan could host it, Armenia endorsed Azerbaijan in exchange for them releasing another portion of hostages (the 2020 ceasefire agreement says that all PoWs must be released, so they are hostages ; and of course people captured after that are).
So in this particular case, apparently, kickbacks did not play a significant role. Which is actually rare for Azerbaijan.
Not necessarily hoping, but this is a useful effect actually.