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COP29 chief secretly filmed promoting fossil fuel deals (www.bbc.com)
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Watch: Secret footage shows COP29's chief Elnur Soltanov discussing gas and oil deals

Oil and gas accounts for about half of Azerbaijan's total economy and more than 90% of its exports, according to US figures.

this is the second year in a row the BBC has revealed alleged wrongdoing by the host government.

These events are supposed to be about reducing the world's use of fossil fuels – the main driver of climate change – not selling more.

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[-] frunch@lemmy.world 56 points 4 days ago

Why bother doing it behind closed doors at this point? There aren't penalties for anything if you aren't a lousy fucking poor

[-] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 5 points 4 days ago

Same reason BP promoted the carbon footprint. They want COP to look like proper climate action, so less people use their energy to do something better. COP looking like an oil sells event, is awful PR for them.

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