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From The Guardian - Climate Change
Summary
Elnur Soltanov, the CEO of Cop29 and Azerbaijan’s deputy energy minister, was filmed agreeing to facilitate fossil fuel deals at the upcoming climate summit. An undercover group posed as an oil and gas firm, receiving assurances and connections to the national oil company Socar. This has intensified calls from campaigners to ban fossil fuel interests from future climate talks, highlighting contradictions between fossil fuel promotion and global climate commitments.
Highlights -🌍
- Elnur Soltanov filmed discussing fossil fuel deals at Cop29. 🎥
- Undercover group posed as oil investors seeking sponsorship deals. 💼
- Calls for banning fossil fuel lobbyists from climate talks intensified. 🚫
- Soltanov described natural gas as a “transitional fuel.” ⛽
- Cop29 team waived climate requirements for potential sponsors. 📜
- Similar scandals occurred at previous climate summits. 🔄
The chief executive of Cop29 has been filmed apparently agreeing to facilitate fossil fuel deals at the climate summit.
The recording has amplified calls by campaigners who want the fossil fuel industry and its lobbyists to be banned from future Cop talks.
The campaign group Global Witness posed undercover as a fake oil and gas group asking for deals to be facilitated in exchange for sponsoring the event.
In the calls, Elnur Soltanov, Azerbaijan’s deputy energy minister and chief executive of the Cop29 talks, agreed to this and spoke of a future which includes fossil fuels “perhaps forever”. Cop officials also introduced the fake investor to a senior executive at the national oil and gas company Socar to discuss investment opportunities.
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Cop29 opens in Baku on Monday.
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Read the full post at The Guardian - Climate Change.
