In another highly unusual move, Azerbaijan’s COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev has continued his leadership. In an opinion piece in The Guardian, he accused developed countries of stalling the negotiations and risking the failure of the conference by insisting on a financial target of just 250 billion US dollars. By criticizing important negotiating partners and revealing internal information from the presidency’s negotiations, Azerbaijan has once again violated the unwritten rules of the COP presidency.