Germany’s leading climate activist on Monday called on Chancellor Olaf Scholz to attend the UN Climate Change Conference in Azerbaijan. As COP29 talks began in Baku, Luisa Neubauer from the German chapter of the Fridays for Future organization asked Scholz to reconsider his decision to skip the meeting due to the ongoing political crisis in Berlin. Scholz decided not to attend the meeting due to the collapse of his governing coalition last week. The climate group also demanded that Germany hold to its extensive commitments on climate finance in the coming years despite the current wrangling ov…