The adoption of the clause was a major achievement at Dubai’s COP28 last year, but Saudi Arabia and other oil producers seemed to have the last laugh at Baku. It is indeed ironical the UN Climate Conference, also known as the Conference of Parties (COP), chooses to hold their jamborees in capitals that are the hub of fossil fuel interests. The World, desperately fighting Climate Change and global warming, held its 200-nation gathering in December 2023 in Dubai; and now COP29 has just concluded in Baku, Azerbaijan—the oldest oil exploration town existing since 1840!

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