From Bruce Denness, Niton, Isle of Wight, UK
The COP 29 climate summit was held in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, whose economy is massively dependent on exploiting its huge fossil fuel resources. The nearby Caspian Sea is rapidly drying out as a result of hydrocarbon-propelled global warming. Yet this connection seems to have eluded stingy higher-income nations as they failed to cough up enough money to address the climate change repercussions faced by lower-income countries. I guess immediate self-interest trumps irony every time (30 November, p 9).
