Ed Miliband will negotiate for the UK at the next climate conference (COP29) in Azerbaijan. The 54-year-old was appointed Minister for Energy Security and Carbon Emissions in the new Labour government on July 5 and will lead the British delegation. The decision will give the UK more weight at the climate conference. At recent COPs, junior ministers have often been in charge of negotiations or key ministers have neglected the negotiations. At COP28 in Dubai, the then climate minister and chief negotiator, Graham Stuart, left early and before the critical negotiation phase in order to fulfill his duties as an MP, as was reported at the time.