Today marks the second and final week of COP29—the annual U.N. climate change summit, which seeks solutions to the world’s top existential problem. The host? An oil-rich country that, according to the CIA World Factbook, is home to the Absheron peninsula in the Caspian Sea that local scientists say is “the ecologically most devastated area in the world.”
[time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”]Being a petro-state is not a crime. But how Azerbaijan’s fossil fuel wealth exacerbates the human...