Green-Energy Link Set to Span Black Sea: Despite Risk of War and Undersea Cable Sabotage, the Caucasus Region Plans to Send Clean Electricity to Europe

Last November, when Azerbaijan hosted COP29, the United Nations' annual climate summit, it was a sort of coming-out party for the country. Organizers wanted to showcase how their small nation of nearly 11 million, on the western shore of the Caspian Sea, had evolved over its three decades of independence and was ready to play a role in the world's energy transition.