The country hosting this year’s UN climate summit is making “critically insufficient” efforts in tackling its own contribution to global warming, according to an expert assessment that will prove embarrassing to Azerbaijan.
The report comes about six weeks ahead of the UN climate talks to be held in Baku and during New York climate week, held on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, where Azerbaijan presented its vision as COP29 host.
The COP29 president-designate Mukhtar Babayev appeared at the Global Renewables Summit at New York’s Plaza Hotel on Tuesday to lay out an agenda before an audience that included European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Kenyan leader William Ruto.