The Chief Executive Officer of COP29 , Elnur Soltanov , has come out to discuss investiture opportunity in Azerbaijan ’s oil and gas operations with a human race puzzle as an investor in a secretly recorded picture .
The filming , report by theBBC , sinks the already blue expectations many hoi polloi had for meaningful actions against the climate crisis to be decided at the international climate conference .
Soltanov is the deputy push curate of Azerbaijan , whose thriftiness is powerfully strung-out on the exportation of fossil fuels . The country is the host of this year ’s United Nations Climate Change Conference , which is also known as the Conference of the Parties of theUNFCCC – more just COP29 . It will start on November 11 and will conclude on November 22 in Baku , the Das Kapital of Azerbaijan .
“ He bluster ‘ flatulency fields that are to be develop , ’ Azerbaijan ’s ‘ pipeline base ’ and SOCAR ’s trading limb that is ‘ sell oil color and gas , all over the world , include in Asia . ’ COP is open for business,”Global Witnessreports .
This is only one of the disputation surrounding COP29 . Anticorruption non - profits have criticise take in the league in an authoritarian statewith extensive documented corruption – for example , some partners of the league are occupation linked to the mob of Azerbaijan ’s swayer Ilham Aliyev .
This is not even the first time that the Climate conference has been under fervency for appearing to bend to the involvement of fossil fuel company and state . COP28 , which took office in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates , faced like literary criticism due to theinvolvementof fogy fuel companies .
The United Nations is calling for unattackable and prompt action at law , spotlight the many utmost atmospheric condition events that take place this year across the reality ; the hurricane devastating the Southeast US such asHeleneandMilton;the super - typhoon in Southeast Asia ; thedeadly floods in Spain , Nepal , China , across Europe , andin West and Central Africa(including inthe Sahara ) ; and the wildfires inthe Arctic , Portugal , Chile and across South America .
“ People , their support and the nature upon which they look are in real danger from the event of climate variety . Without action , this is a preview of what our future tense check and why there simply is no self-justification for the universe not to get serious about adjustment , now , ” Inger Andersen , Executive Director of UN Environment Programme , articulate in astatement .
One essential consequence of the climate crisis is that previously rare utmost effect are much more unwashed – once - in - a - century storm might occur twice in a matter of weeks , like in Italy in 2023 . To avoid the most ruinous event of the crisis , the median global increase in temperature must be keep below 1.5 ° C ( 2.7 ° F ) above industrial levels .
“ The mood crisis is here . We ca n’t postpone aegis . We must conform – now , ” UN Secretary - General António Guterres express .
