COP29 president lays out plans for summit

Azerbaijan’s leadership unveiled its plans for the upcoming COP29 Summit, emphasizing the expansion of global energy storage capacity and reducing methane emissions, but omitting any commitment to phasing out fossil fuels. In a letter outlining the COP29 presidency action agenda, Azerbaijan’s Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources, Mukhtar Babayev, pledged, alongside UNECE and UNIDO, to increase global energy storage sixfold to 1.5 TW by 2030 and add or refurbish over 80 million kilometers of grids…