The Taliban will attend a U.N. climate conference for the first time since their takeover of Afghanistan in 2021, the environment agency said on Sunday.

The conference, known as COP29, begins on Monday in Azerbaijan and is one of the most important multilateral talks to include the Taliban, who do not have outside recognition as the legitimate rulers of Afghanistan.

  • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
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    13 days ago

    At least it’s interesting. They may have been a human right violator but letting them into modern world discussion about modern world issue might put them in different perspective, you never know, given that the climate change hit poorer country harder than richer one. Compared to Republican, which they know the issue but chose to ignore it for profit, Taliban might actually didn’t know or didn’t care about it before as they’re busy having insurgency. Also it’s good to know what they’re up to in terms of environmental issue.

    I see them as a poorer, war torn Saudi Arabia, and Saudi is attending a lot of global event.