COP29 climate hosts say they'll keep expanding fossil fuels
Bonn (AFP) June 7, 2024
The incoming president of the COP29 UN climate summit in Azerbaijan told AFP on Friday that his country would keep increasing fossil fuel production "in parallel" with investments in cleaner alternatives. Mukhtar Babayev defended his country's hosting of the world's most important climate summit despite its surging natural gas exports, even as UN chief Antonio Guterres renewed calls this wee
The incoming president of the COP29 UN climate summit in Azerbaijan told AFP on Friday that his country would keep increasing fossil fuel production "in parallel" with investments in cleaner alternatives. Mukhtar Babayev defended his country's hosting of the world's most important climate summit despite its surging natural gas exports, even as UN chief Antonio Guterres renewed calls this wee