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Activists Call for Process ‘Overhaul’ After Oil Industry Veteran Confirmed to Lead COP29

Inside Climate News · By Kristoffer Tigue · last updated
Azerbaijan named a former state oil executive as the summit’s president, marking the second consecutive year a fossil fuel insider will helm the U.N. climate talks. Climate advocates call it an “enormous conflict of interest.”

By Kristoffer Tigue

Azerbaijan has selected its ecology minister—and a former executive at the country’s state-run oil company—to lead the United Nations’ flagship climate conference later this year. The decision has reignited fierce debate over the role the fossil fuel industry should play in global climate talks.

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