Who’s to blame for climate change: Fossil fuel producers or purchasers?
Voice of America
FILE - Activists participate in a demonstration against fossil fuels at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, in Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 16, 2024. FILE - Pipes are stacked up to be used for the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline project in Durres, Albania, April 18, 2016, to transport gas from the Shah Deniz II field in Azerbaijan, across Turkey, Greece, Albania and undersea into southern Italy.
The role of Azerbaijan as a growing exporter of fossil fuels has forced a debate at this month’s climate conference in Baku over which countries are most responsible for worsening climate change — the producers or the countries that buy and burn those fuels.
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Handout picture released on November 21, 2024 by the Public Defense Department of the State Police Commissioner in Iceland shows lava and smoke erupting from a volcano near Grindavik on the Icelandic peninsula of Reykjanes.
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FILE - Dawit Isaak, an Eritrean-Swedish journalist and advocate for human rights, center, poses with his children, who include his daughter, Betlehem Isaak, right, who continues to fight for the release of her father, who has been imprisoned without trial in Eritrea since 2001. Dawit Isaak, an Eritrean-Swedish journalist and advocate for human rights, in an undated photo at an unspecified location. Dawit Isaak, an Eritrean-Swedish journalist and advocate for human rights, in an undated photo at an unspecified location.
FILE - India's Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani addresses the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit in Gandhinagar, India, Jan.10, 2024. He has since been indicted in the U.S. on charges he duped investors.
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