Azerbaijan, which will host the COP29 climate summit at the end of this year, has appointed an organising committee for the event made up of 28 men and no women. The gender bias has been lambasted by campaigners as regressive, with one group saying “climate change affects the whole world, not half of it.” Azerbaijan’s president Ilham Aliyev announced the controversial lineup last week. The members are predominantly government ministers or officials and include the head of the state security service. Azerbaijan’s all-male COP29 committee sparks condemnationAzerbaijan’s committee appointments dr…
