'Azerbaijan cannot impose any kind of solution' COP29's host says

The foreign policy advisor to Azerbaijan's president has told Euronews that Azerbaijan is only one of 198 participants and all of them "have their own responsibilities and their own objectives."

"Azerbaijan cannot impose any kind of solution or any kind of decision to the other countries," Hikmet Hajiyev said on Saturday, on the sidelines of the summit in the capital Baku.

Negotiators at COP29 are working on a deal that might be worth hundreds of billions of euros to poorer nations. Many are in the Global South and already suffering the costly impacts of weather disasters fuelled by climate change.

Several experts have said one trillion dollars a year or more is needed both to compensate for such damages and to pay for a clean-energy transition that most countries can't afford on their own.

If you would like to hear more of our correspondent's interview with Hajiyev you can click on the video in the player above.