Featured in Lighting the way – 05-2024

Leading by example in Baku

Azerbaijan has a centuries-long history of energy production and export. In 2024, it will host the COP29 climate summit. Leyla Hasanova, the country’s Youth Climate Champion for COP29, argues that action on climate change must start at home.
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Policymakers and other officials from around the world will attend the COP29 summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, in November 2024. | Photo: COP28/Stuart Wilson

 It is now nearly a decade since a landmark agreement was struck in Paris to limit the rise in global temperatures to below 2 C, compared to pre-industrial levels, and preferably below the safer limit of 1.5 C. The world’s first year-long breach of the 1.5 C level occurred in 2023. Although this does not …

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