Published: January 15th, 2024,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

Last week, Mukhtar Babayev was appointed President-designate for the UN Climate Change Conference in Baku in November. The 55-year-old Environment Minister of Azerbaijan can look back on a long career in the oil and gas industry. He is a rather unknown quantity in international climate policy. The fact that a former oil and gas manager will once again be chairing the climate talks is attracting a lot of criticism.