Azerbaijan’s growing role as a trusted host of major international forums is not accidental. It reflects a combination of ...

COP29 in Baku is marred by disagreements over climate financing, sidelining of key issues, and political tensions. The absence of many global leaders and the controversial remarks of Azerbaijani ...

On the final official day of COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, it is still unclear if this year’s United Nations climate summit will lead to an agreement before the end of the official conference or if talks ...

As we broadcast this week from the U.N. climate talks in Baku, human rights groups have warned of Azerbaijan’s escalating crackdown on civil society groups, government critics and the press. Since the ...

Brazil Vice President Geraldo Alckmin speaking at COP29 in Baku. (Vice-Presidência da República/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 2.0) COP29 gathered dozens of world leaders. (The Presidential Press and ...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan (The Presidential Press and Information Office of Azerbaijan/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 4.0) At COP29, the AIA delegation was highly ...

As the United Nations climate change conference reached the halfway point, faith organizations urgently appealed for countries to seize the limited time left and set an ambitious new target to finance ...

BAKU — Countries agreed on Sunday to an annual finance target of $300 billion to help poorer countries deal with impacts of climate change, with rich countries leading the payments, according to a ...

Azerbaijan is hosting COP29, the UN climate conference, drawing criticism from some who point to the country's huge oil industry and poor record of pollution. Not far from the host city, Baku, RFE/RL ...