Senior Climate Change Conference Official Caught Promoting Fossil Fuels – IOTW Report

Senior Climate Change Conference Official Caught Promoting Fossil Fuels

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A senior official for the upcoming Conference of the Parties (COP) meeting in Azerbaijan appears to have used his position as chief executive of COP29 to set up meetings with potential investors in the Azerbaijani oil and gas industries.

Azerbaijan’s energy production accounts for 60% of the nation’s economy. Elnur Soltanov, deputy energy minister of Azerbaijan and chief executive of COP29, was secretly recorded discussing “investment opportunities” in the state-owned fossil fuel company, the State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SOCAR).

“We have a lot of gas fields that are to be developed,” he says.

Soltanov was part of a media sting set up by an international anti-corruption group known as Global Witness. They created a fictitious company that professed to be interested in investing in SOCAR. more

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