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By Ailis Halligan in Tbilisi Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg joined Georgian, Armenian and Azerbaijani activists in the Georgian capital on the evening of November 11, to protest against the COP29 UN Climate Conference which kicked off in the capital of neighbouring Azerbaijan the same day. Baku’s successful bid to host this year’s COP summit, which aims to facilitate multilateral solutions to the mounting climate crisis, has triggered a global outcry in light of the country’s heavy dependence on fossil fuels and increasingly repressive attitude to human rights. The action followed a s…