Azerbaijan will host COP-29 from November 11 to 22, 2024. But the small oil state is suffering greatly from the causes and effects of climate change, and faces significant trade-offs.

On assignment for the NYT, Nanna Heitmann documented the small country in July 2024. Together with journalist Max Bearak, she reported from remote mountain villages, an offshore oil platform and the capital, Baku.

"As alarm over global warming soars amid record-breaking heat and increasingly erratic weather, Azerbaijan has barely begun the process of replacing oil and gas. It has argued, as many less developed...