Mukhtar Babayev is president-designate of the 29th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan, in November. He is also Azerbaijan's minister of ecology and natural resources.
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The bed of a Sri Lankan lake dried by drought in August 2023: Global temperatures surged by 1.1 degrees over the past decade. © Reuters
Mukhtar Babayev is president-designate of the 29th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan, in November. He is also Azerbaijan's minister of ecology and natural resources.