France has in effect boycotted the COP29 UN climate summit in Azerbaijan after an attack by the host country president, laying bare a divide between the two nations at negotiations where guest lists are dominated by regional neighbours and oil and gas interests have been defended.
The top French climate official Agnès Pannier-Runacher said she would not attend the conference after President Ilham Aliyev accused France of “brutally” suppressing climate change concerns in its island territories in the Pacific in an address to other leaders.
He also claimed France had caused “environmental degradation” in the territories, which he described as “colonies”, AFP reported, citing nuclear tests in French Polynesia and Algeria.
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