Azerbaijan appoints former national oil company Mukhtar Babayev as president of the conference
Azerbaijan appointed Minister of Environment and Natural Resources Mukhtar Babayev, who worked for more than twenty years at the Azerbaijan State Oil Company, as president of the 29th Assembly.H United Nations climate conference. It will be held in Baku from November 11 to 22.
“His Excellency Mukhtar Babayev has been appointed President-designate among the 29H COP session »Rashad Allahverdiyev, a ministry official, wrote to AFP on Friday, January 5, in an email. This will be the second year that the COP will be chaired by a man with a background in his country's oil sector.
In 2023, the United Arab Emirates, host of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28), chose Sultan Al Jaber, CEO of the Emirati public oil company, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, to chair the United Nations conference held in Dubai upon invitation. to ” transition “ Away from fossil fuels – this is the first time the COP has made such a call.
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