Azerbaijan has unveiled the venue in its capital Baku where the U.N.'s COP29 climate change summit will take place next week.
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00:00AZERBAIJAN HAS UNVEILED THE VENUE FOR THE COP29 CLIMATE CHANGE SUMMIT IN ITS CAPITAL
00:05BAKU.
00:06MORE THAN 100 WORLD LEADERS ARE EXPECTED TO GATHER FOR THE UN FORUM NEXT WEEK ON TACKLING
00:11CLIMATE CHANGE.
00:12THERE HAS BEEN CONTROVERSY IN THE LEAD-UP TO THE SUMMIT AFTER ADVOCACY GROUP GLOBAL
00:16WITNESS SECRETLY FILMED AZERBAIJAN'S COP29 CHIEF PROMOTING A FOSSIL FUEL DEAL.
00:22SIMILAR ACCUSATIONS WERE LEVELED LAST YEAR AGAINST THE COP28 HOST, THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES.
00:28It doesn't surprise me that conversations around new energy deals are happening.
00:33It certainly does surprise me that this is the second year in a row where a COP president
00:38has appeared to try and facilitate new deals for fossil fuel projects within and under
00:45the auspices of COP itself, the primary forum for the world coming together to discuss a
00:51very inclined breakdown.