"Eco-show" in Baku

7 fateful questions surrounding the world climate summit

Representatives from almost every country in the world are still struggling to find solutions in the fight against climate change in Baku until Friday.

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The UN climate conference in Baku is on the brink! There is time until the end of the week to turn the tide - what needs to happen quickly now? Krone+ has the answers to the most pressing questions.

Ahead! Negotiations in the Caucasian oil and gas country are running extremely slowly. Critics, such as the Turkish EU mandatary Alexander Bernhuber, are questioning a climate summit in this form and at this location. They say it makes no sense to hold the COP for the third time after Egypt and Dubai in a country that relies heavily on fossil fuels and gushing sources of oil revenue. But it is not only this aspect that is being hotly debated. The "Krone" asks the most important questions at half-time.