While Azerbaijan sought to present itself as a global leader in climate action by hosting COP29, its environmental policies, pollution levels, and governance issues tell a different story.

Global Witness is today both alarmed and concerned at the repressive move by authorities in Azerbaijan to force the closure ...

BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 19. Important decisions made at COP29 marked the summit of Azerbaijan’s unwavering commitment to multilateralism, Speaker of the Parliament of Azerbaijan Sahiba ...

"Last year, the COP29 conference was held here, in Azerbaijan. Hosting this event in a country that demonstrates ambitious efforts in green growth was an important step toward building a ...

BAKU, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- Azerbaijan on Friday concluded the Pre-COP29 climate conference in Baku, where officials from around the world gathered to push forward negotiations on key issues ahead ...

President Ilham Aliyev has rejected criticism over the arrests of journalists and said Azerbaijan has "a free press and a free internet." The BBC said in a statement that it had made the ...

Ruben Vardanyan, a former top official in the ethnic Armenian administration of Nagorno-Karabakh which Azerbaijan retook in 2023, announced a second hunger strike on Wednesday in protest against his ...

COP29 was held November 11-22 in Baku, Azerbaijan. BC’s COP29 contingent included four faculty members, six graduate and seven undergraduate students, and staff lead Kaley McCarty, Schiller Institute ...

Lauren Sommer is a correspondent for NPR's climate desk, where she covers scientists on the frontlines of documenting the warming climate and how that science is — and isn't — being used by ...

Research on the former Soviet region explores geopolitics of various states, the domestic, foreign and security policy of Russia, and the conflict in Ukraine. Key projects currently include responding ...