Azerbaijan
Tongan activist hits out at Azerbaijan’s environmental record ahead of COP29
A Tongan activist has lashed out at Azerbaijan’s climate record ahead of the COP29 UN climate summit in Baku. Joseph Zane Sikulu, an activist from the Pacific Basin Climate Movement made the comments in an open letter to the President of COP29, Mukhtar Babayev, a former oil executive at SOCAR. In the letter, Sikulu introduced himself as a native Tongan, noting that Babayev recently visited the islands of Tonga to participate in the 53rd Pacific Islands Forum. ‘You visited my home island la