Authoritarian fossil fuel states keep hosting climate conferences. How do they operate? What do they want?

Nov 12, 2024

For the third year in a row, the United Nations Climate Change Conference will be hosted by an authoritarian state that sells fossil fuels. This week the 29th "conference of the parties," COP29, is being held in Baku, Azerbaijan. It follows COP28 in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates last year and COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt the year before that.