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.

  • d00phy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    292·
    3 days ago

    Does the damn Taliban give more of a shit about climate change than Republicans!? This is absolutely the shittiest timeline.

    • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      102·
      3 days ago

      At least both parties share a lot in common otherwise. It’s almost like two nearly identical people hating each other.

      • Nasan@sopuli.xyz
        4·
        3 days ago

        They’re competing for the bottom of literacy rates and treatment of women, it’s neck and neck.

    • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
      4·
      3 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.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
    33·
    3 days ago

    We should require a mixed delegation, equal number of men and women regional managers.

    Not for dei for real; just to fuck with human-rights abusers.

    Oh. America too then, but they probably won’t go.

    • Zagorath@aussie.zone
      2·
      3 days ago

      The ICC literally has a rule that a country without a women’s team or pathway can’t be full members. But the ICC can’t even be bothered to enforce that rule (and neither can the cricketing world—of full members, only Australia has cancelled matches against Afghanistan in protest, and even we can’t be bothered doing that during multilateral fixtures like world cups), I don’t have much hope that more significant bodies will.