COP29 has completed its first week with some successes, but also with a series of controversies.
France’s top climate official is not going to COP29 in Baku after Azerbaijan’s president, Ilham Aliyev, reacting to criticism for cracking down on dissidents ahead of COP29, accused France of “brutally” suppressing climate change concerns in its overseas territories. He accused both France and the Netherlands for their “neocolonialism”, which he linked to climate
