ecology

It is not a blank canvas for outsiders to fill with ecology in their own image.

Tanton kindles a small fire of twigs inside a metal pitcher, while expounding for the camera about ecology and overpopulation.

Its minister for ecology and natural resources - a former oil executive that spent 26 years at Azerbaijan’s state-owned oil and gas company Socar – is the conference's chairman.

"There's also not much research on how these renewable energy farms will impact the state's climate and ecology in the long run," he says.

He studied ecology at the University of Aberdeen before becoming an arborist.