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Azerbaijan is hosting the U.N. climate conference, putting the authoritarian petrostate in spotlight

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Azerbaijan is hosting the U.N. climate summit on how to avoid increasing threats from climate change.

The world's first oil fields were developed in Baku in 1846 , and Azerbaijan led the world in oil production in 1899 .

Azerbaijan exports mainly oil and gas, two of the world’s leading sources of planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions.

President Ilham Aliyev described the resources in April as a “gift of the gods”.

Azerbaijan owns Shah Deniz — one of the largest gas fields in the world — and BP announced in April the start of oil production from a new offshore platform in the Caspian Sea .

Baku has said it will increase its fossil fuel production over the next decade .

The Paris climate agreement requires countries to submit plans to combat climate change.

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