Azerbaijan: To Save Our Planet, It Is Time for a COP29 Truce | Opinion [Video]

In one month, Azerbaijan will host COP29, the world’s annual climate summit, with a sense of optimism that a crucial international deal on climate finance is within reach. Despite the turbulent state of world affairs, concerns over the health of our planet rank as highly as issues of global stability, security, and peace.

Because of this confluence, Azerbaijan has called for a “COP truce.” Based on the ancient idea of the Olympic truce, this represents a plea for countries to observe a pause in conflict while nations negotiate remedies for the climate emergency on the planet we all share. Some might believe this overambitious. Maybe. But when the COP29 meeting in Baku is itself the product of a truce—one few believed possible—it would be a mistake for us not to try.

At Azerbaijan’s COP, peace and climate are intertwined—precisely because we won the right to hold the event by walking the road to …