Elnur Soltanov speaks on the Baku Native local weather Motion Week in Heydar Aliyev Heart in Baku, Azerbaijan on Sept. 30, 2024. Aziz Karimov / Getty Photos
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Chief Authorities Officer of the United Nations COP29 Native local weather Change Convention Elnur Soltanov has been recorded by World Witness apparently agreeing to assist facilitate fossil gasoline commerce offers on the summit, reported The Guardian.
A member of the promoting and advertising and marketing advertising and marketing marketing campaign group posed as a pretend oil and gasoline information providing to sponsor the occasion in change for help with the offers.
“COP29 officers abused their positions by facilitating talks about oil and gasoline offers at a neighborhood local weather convention, pitching a dystopian future which comprises fossil fuels ‘maybe eternally,’” a spokesperson for World Witness stated in a press launch. “Petrostates are perfecting a sinister playbook which sees COP as merely one totally different enterprise totally different for polluters.”
Officers of COP29 — which begins subsequent week in Baku, Azerbaijan — offered an introduction for the phony investor to a senior authorities of the State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) to debate potential investments.
Soltanov, who will likely be Azerbaijan’s deputy vitality minister, promised “to create a contact between your self and [SOCAR]… so that they will begin discussions.”
Soltanov rapid that World Witness’ pretend funding group EC Capital “incorporate your actions with SOCAR’s practice all by way of COP, as a way to… deal with enterprise to them and likewise take part contained in the COP29 course of.”
The UN Framework Conference on Native local weather Change (UNFCCC) expects officers to behave “with out self-interest” and stated they need to not use their official roles “to hunt private buy,” The Guardian reported.
World Witness recorded Soltanov telling the imposter oil and gasoline group that SOCAR was “looking for and selling oil and gasoline, all world huge, together with in Asia,” the press launch stated.
Soltanov stated pure gasoline is a “transitional gasoline,” and that “we might have a sure amount of oil and pure gasoline being produced, maybe eternally.”
All by way of final yr’s native local weather summit, nations agreed to transition away from native local weather wrecking fossil fuels. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Native local weather Change has made it clear that new oil and gasoline progress is incompatible with the world’s native local weather targets as established contained in the 2016 Paris Settlement.
It furthermore appeared that the COP29 staff was able to waive the pretend company’s native local weather necessities if it sponsored the talks.
Occasion sponsors of COP29 are anticipated to resolve to lowering their emissions, together with signal a “nationwide pledge” that ensures to plan a “credible net zero plan” by means of the next two years, reported The Guardian.
The necessities have been waived by means of the recorded negotiations, with the COP29 staff agreeing to a mannequin new clause which will give imposter EC Capital “assembly alternate choices with key native stakeholders from the vitality sector at COP29.”
After World Witness’ video determine with Soltanov, EC Capital was launched to Vice President of SOCAR Elshad Nassirov, who expressed curiosity in assembly with them in Baku.
“The UNFCCC urgently ought to act to clean up the [COP] native local weather talks, beginning by banning the fossil gasoline commerce from sponsoring them, and kicking their lobbyists out for good. We’ve had 29 talks with an ever-growing crowd of polluters and snake-oil salesmen current. Let’s strive the next one with out,” a spokesperson for World Witness stated contained in the press launch.
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