This week, world leaders will meet in Azerbaijan’s capital to discuss global warming and other environmental issues at the United Nations COP29 summit.

Diplomats from across the world will be in Baku to discuss how to avoid the increasing threats from climate change in a place that was one of the birthplaces of the oil industry.

The issue of climate change is a global challenge that affects every nation and individual. It is a crisis that cannot be addressed in isolation; only through collective action can we effectively combat its impacts.

Afghan Taliban officials will attend a major United Nations climate conference that starts next week, the Afghan Foreign Ministry said on Sunday, the first time they have attended since the former insurgents took power in 2021.

Diplomats from across the world head to Azerbaijan for the annual climate summit, known as COP29. Critics allege greenwashing of the authoritarian petrostate.