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A postcard from Baku Big oil may be softening its stance on climate-change regulation ExxonMobil’s boss wants America to stick with the Paris accord A spectre hangs over Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, where diplomats, scientists and activists are gathered for the UN’s annual climate-change summit. Last time he was in office Donald Trump, a fossil-fuel booster and climate-science denier, yanked America out of the UN’s Paris climate agreement (it later rejoined). The president-elect has vowed to do so again on his first day back in office. To add to climate warriors’ gloom, Shell, a British oil giant, won an important legal victory this week. In 2021 a Dutch court had ordered the company to cut its emissions of greenhouse gases by 45% by 2030, in line with the Paris agreement. On November 12th the Hague Court of Appeal overturned the ruling. Yet those championing climate action also received a boost from an unexpected quarter this week. “We will continue to advocate for the w
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