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While we are witnessing an ever-escalating cascade of climate disasters, leaders from the world\u2019s most polluting countries were conspicuously absent from COP29, the United Nations\u2019 annual climate conference. Others boycotted the conference because of host country Azerbaijan\u2019s rampant human rights abuses, particularly its ethnic cleansing of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh last year. Papua New Guinea called the conference \u201ca total waste of time.\u201d Meanwhile, Azerbaijan appointed Elnur Soltanov, the head of its state energy company Socar, as its chief executive to the conference. Soltanov appeared to use the occasion as a forum to cut deals with international petroleum corporations. Nonetheless, there were still over 65,000 registered delegates \u2013 making it the second largest in COP\u2019s history. One of those delegates was Chief Wesley Sam from BC\u2019s Ts\u2019il Kaz Koh Nation. The… <\/p>\n

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While we are witnessing an ever-escalating cascade of climate disasters, leaders from the world\u2019s most polluting countries were conspicuously absent from COP29, the United Nations\u2019 annual climate conference. Others boycotted the conference because of host country Azerbaijan\u2019s rampant human rights abuses, particularly its ethnic cleansing of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh last year. Papua New Guinea called the conference \u201ca total waste of time.\u201d Meanwhile, Azerbaijan appointed Elnur Soltanov, the head of its state energy company Socar, as its chief executive to the conference. Soltanov appeared to use the occasion as a forum to cut deals with international petroleum corporations. Nonetheless, there were still over 65,000 registered delegates \u2013 making it the second largest in COP\u2019s history. One of those delegates was Chief Wesley Sam from BC\u2019s Ts\u2019il Kaz Koh Nation. The... <\/p>\n

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