Azerbaijan, a petrostate on the southeastern edge of Europe, has been propelled into the limelight as the location of COP29. This follows an agreement with its arch-rival Armenia to begin a peace process after decades of war. Hosting the UN climate conference brings a new level of scrutiny to the country – and pressure for it to speed up its own green energy transition which it previously announced as a top national goal. Much of those efforts centre on the region of Nagorno-Karabakh – over which Armenia and Azerbaijan have fought a decades-long bloody war which led to many thousands of casual…