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The Host and the Gap — The Heat Is On 🌡️ The Heat Is On South Caucasus Desk · Climate Finance Echoes of COP29 · Baku, eighteen months on The Host and the Gap A petrostate ran the world's climate summit, and the number it produced was less than a quarter of what the science was asking for. Those two facts are the same story. Desk South Caucasus Filed Cam Edited Érine Coding Chief You can tell what a climate summit is for by where they choose to hold it, and Baku said it plainly. COP29 ran in November 2024 in the capital of Azerbaijan, a state that lives off oil and gas and carries a documented record on press freedom, civil society, and political opposition that rights groups had flagged for years. People argued about the venue before it started. What the venue produced is the part worth keeping the file open on. The headline was money, or the promise of it. Developing countries came to Baku asking for 1.3 trillion dol...

Squash to Play — The Maculate Institutional Analysis The Maculate Systems Analysis Series — India — June 2026 Systems Analysis — India Formation Machine Squash to Play: A Systems Analysis of the Indian State and What It Produces The Maculate publishes from a position of structural disinterest. We do not require India to be as good as it advertises or as bad as it is. We require only that it be legible. It is not legible. That is the first finding. The attempt to make it so follows. The Maculate Editorial Board The Heat Is On declined editorial involvement on grounds of possible bias and conflict of interest in the companion sector analysis. This piece is The Maculate’s independent assessment. A note on method and risk Every claim in this analysis is sourced from public record: court filings, NHRC data, NCRB statistics, RSF rankings, government press releases, and publ...