{"id":351160,"date":"2024-11-14T07:15:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T06:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=351160"},"modified":"2024-11-14T07:15:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T06:15:25","slug":"day-2-azerbaijan-president-says-fossil-fuels-a-gift-from-god-un-parades-world-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=351160","title":{"rendered":"Day 2: Azerbaijan President says fossil fuels a \u201cGift from God\u201d, UN parades world leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Craig Rucker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day two of the UN Conference of the Parties meeting (COP 29) in Baku, Azerbaijan, saw numerous heads of state roll into town to pay homage to he global warming cause. In all, some 100 world leaders<\/a> were represented, with many ushered into the main plenary stage to deliver short testimonials on how their nation is on course to reach carbon neutrality by 2050, long before which they will be out of office or dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres set the tenor<\/a> of the event by focusing on what many, particularly in the developing world, flew all this way in their gas-guzzling jets to discuss: Money. \u201cDeveloping countries must not leave Baku empty-handed. A deal is a must and I\u2019m confident it will be reached\u2026 On climate finance, the world must pay up, or humanity will pay the price,\u201d Guterres said to applause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notably absent from this high-brow affair were major world leaders from China, India, Germany, France, Canada and the U.S.A., the nations that would most likely \u201cpay up\u201d as Mr. Guterres demanded. Instead, the list mostly included smaller nations such as Morrocco, Congo, Kenya, Tuvulu and the Bahamas; in other words, countries that would be on the cash-receiving end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were exceptions. Great Britain\u2019s new Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, made his climate debut appearance<\/a> at COP 29. He showed up specifically to announce his country\u2019s determination to rid itself of energy abundance. Taking his turn on stage, he boasted that \u201cIn the first 100 days of this government\u2026.We scrapped the ban on onshore wind\u2026We committed to no new North Sea oil and gas licenses\u2026 [and] we closed the UK\u2019s final coal power plant at the end of September.\u201d  In their place he said they would commit to more green energy, and finished his remarks with a bang by announcing that by 2035 the UK will \u201creduce all greenhouse gas emissions by at least 81% on 1990 levels.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spain\u2019s President Pedro Sanchez also spoke<\/a>, pinning climate change as culpable for his nation\u2019s recent flooding that left 220 dead; as did Finland\u2019s President Alexander Stubb, who pledged more financial assistance<\/a> to developing countries to help them \u201cstrengthen adaptation and build resilience\u201d to climate impacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not all were amused, however, by the UN\u2019s showcase of international pomp and show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A group called CARE, which works on global poverty, complained about the gender mix<\/a> which contained too much testosterone onstage. \u201cWomen and girls bear the brunt of the climate crisis and often design the solutions, yet only 8 out of the 78 world leaders participating in COP29 are women,\u201d the group noted in a press release. \u201cWhile the Conference of Parties (COP) strive to be an inclusive summit, the negotiation table remains far from diverse.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other malcontents, like the nation of Paupau New Guinea, didn\u2019t even show up to criticize the event, as they bailed out<\/a> before it took place. \u201cThere\u2019s no point going if we are falling asleep because of jet lag because we\u2019re not getting anything done,\u201d Foreign Minister Justin Tkatchenko said. \u201cCOP is a total waste of time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the most newsworthy event of Day 2 in Baku, however, was not what was scripted onstage by the UN hierarchy, but what was said by the President<\/a> of the host country of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He greeted the delegates in his opening remarks by saying oil and gas a \u201cgift from God\u201d, and then went on to praise fossil fuel use and slam critics of his nation\u2019s export of gas and oil to build its economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFake news media of the country which is (the) number one oil and gas producer in the world and produces 30 times more oil than Azerbaijan, call us \u2018petrostate\u2019,\u201d President Aliyev said. \u201cThey better look at themselves.\u201d He also took aim at \u201cso-called independent NGOs and some politicians, as if (they) were competing in spreading disinformation and false information about our country\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These remarks, needless to say, made some on the Left go ballistic. Martin Kaiser, head of Greenpeace Germany, described the statement as a \u2018\u2018slap in the face\u2019<\/a>\u2019. \u201cFor all those who are already suffering from the consequences of climate change, such as the Pacific island states. The scientific community is unanimous: in order to prevent the worst effects of global warming, no more new coal, oil and gas extraction projects should be built,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To be sure, it was an eventful day 2 at COP 29. Stayed tuned for more updates from CFACT in Azerbaijan coming soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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