Mukhtar Babayev, Azerbaijan’s Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources, has been named as president-designate of the Cop29 climate conference. He will be the second oil executive in a row to head the global environmental summit after UAE’s Sultan Al Jaber in 2023.
Mukhtar Babayev, who was formerly an executive at state oil company Socar, will preside over the 29th session of the conference of the parties to be h