'Feels like a big joke': Oil producer Azerbaijan to host global climate summit

Climate finance is the main issue ahead of this year's COP climate meeting in Azerbaijan — a country reliant on the oil sector, and with shortcomings when it comes to democracy and human rights.

The choice of host was a compromise decision, after Russia had blocked eastern European countries in the EU from taking the reins.

”It feels like a big joke,” says Lund resident Zhala Bayramova, whose seriously ill father Gubad Ibadoghlu is one of more than 300 political prisoners in Azerbaijan.