Baku, Azerbaijan – The top organizer of the 29th annual UN climate change conference was caught on a secret recording of him trying to make a gas deal with a fake Chinese investor, raising concerns about climate change at the UN summit. caused anger. The UN's top climate change expert called this a “treason” to the process.
It's not the first time
This is not the first time that a climate change summit has been used by big government and corporations to extort money from the public and even to make oil deals.
In fact, this scandal is reminiscent of last year's UN COP28 summit in the Arabian Peninsula. The conference attracted around 80,000 participants from around the world to Dubai. There, Arab officials were caught conducting oil and gas deals with communist China and various governments in Africa and Latin America. Again, Western alarmists were furious, but most of the world yawned.
Azerbaijan's Prime Minister Ilham Aliyev has mocked the US's “fake news media” and said that all natural resources are a blessing from the Creator, and that each country “has no right to own natural resources or put them on the market.” He shouldn't be blamed.” He also declared that oil and hydrocarbon energy were “gifts of God.”
“scandal”
A new “scandal” widely publicized by Western media involves the chief executive of Azerbaijan's COP29 team, Ernur Soltanov. In a secretly recorded exchange of talks, Soltanov spoke with an activist posing as a Chinese energy investor seeking to sponsor the COP and invest in energy investments, and the petrostate's state oil and gas company SOCAR. They were caught discussing “investment opportunities.'' Azerbaijan.
During the interaction, Mr. Soltanov, Director of SOCAR and Deputy Minister of Energy of the Government of Azerbaijan, said:
There are many gas fields scheduled for development… There are many joint ventures that can be formed. … Socar trades oil and gas around the world, including Asia. … We would be happy to create a link between your team and theirs (Socar). Start a discussion.
The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says oil and gas production must stop within the next few decades to limit rising global temperatures. (A widely derided group whose predictions and claims have consistently been proven wrong.) But Soltanov said gas is a “transitional fuel” that will be produced “probably forever.” Ta. This was a clear violation of last year's United Nations climate change agreement, which called for the end of fossil fuels.
The oil deal also called into question comments made by UN climate change leader Simon Stiel at the opening of COP29. “The transition to clean energy and climate resilience is unstoppable,” the UNFCCC Director-General told delegates from around the world. “Our job is to accelerate this and ensure that its huge benefits are shared by all countries and all people.”
video
The video was obtained by a left-wing activist group called Global Witness, which describes itself as a “human rights” organization. According to reports, an activist posing as a Chinese businessman requested a meeting with Soltanov as the summit's organizer. During the meeting, Soltanov offered to help promote investment in Azerbaijan's oil and gas fields.
In an email exchange between Azerbaijan's COP29 team and a “Chinese investor,” the two sides discussed a $600,000 “sponsorship” agreement. In return, the fake sponsors were introduced to key SOCAR leaders and were to participate in a “Sustainable Oil and Gas Investing” event at the COP29 summit. The agreement would also include five all-access passes to the UN summit.
News of the fake transactions shocked Western media. The incident was first reported by the far-left BBC, the state broadcaster considered one of the most alarming broadcasters in the world. Under the headline “COP29 chief filmed promoting fossil fuel trade”, the “climate change editor” could barely contain his anger. He quoted climate change activists declaring all of this “totally unacceptable” and a “betrayal.”
Hydrocarbon energy is not a small problem for Azerbaijan. Oil and gas account for about half of GDP and about 90 percent of exports. Western liberals were therefore dismayed by the decision to hold the controversial climate conference there. This follows last year's summit in the United Arab Emirates, another major hydrocarbon energy producer that literally depends on oil and gas for survival.
United Nations response
The United Nations has so far declined to comment directly on Soltanov's remarks. The BBC reported:
The United Nations said it could not comment directly on our findings, but said “the same rigorous standards” were applied to those organizing the conference, and those standards included “the importance of impartiality for all chairs.” He said that it reflects the …
“They are also expected to ensure that their personal views and beliefs do not undermine or impair their role or function as UNFCCC officials.”
In an interview with the BBC, former UN climate leader Christiana Figueres criticized Azerbaijan's leaders for being involved. Figueres claimed he was “shocked” that a COP leader would use his official position to make oil and gas deals, ignoring last year's scandal in which Emirati authorities did something similar. . She said the action was “contrary to” the objectives of UN COP29 and a “treason” to the broader climate process.
Saint of Figueres
Mr. Figueres, who oversaw the Paris negotiations, is himself clouded by scandal. In 2012, for example, she opened a United Nations summit in Cancun with a bizarre “prayer” to the Mayan god Ixchel. She claimed that Ixchel was the goddess of “creativity” and “tapestry.” However, she ignored the well-known association of demonic entities with cannibalism, war, and human sacrifice.
Latin America's far-left UN bigwigs also let their hands out of the bag in 2015. This suggests that the climate change issue is not an environmental issue, but an issue of economic transformation away from free markets, she said.
This is the first time in human history that we have set ourselves the task of intentionally changing, within a defined period of time, a model of economic development that has governed for at least 150 years.
Azerbaijani authorities and SOCAR have not publicly responded to requests for comment on the scandal fabricated by the media. But Azerbaijani leader Aliyev's comments at the summit on the divine origin of blessings, including hydrocarbon fuels and all natural resources, are an important and almost precedent-setting backlash against anti-energy extremism by Western globalists and their UN minions. This was an example of no.
Of course, on paper everyone claims to agree that CO2 is the bad guy and that so-called fossil fuels must be phased out. Eliminating all hydrocarbon energy was in fact a key point of the agreement signed at last year's UN climate summit. However, as The New American later reported, the cost-effective energy ban apparently applies only to Western countries, the countries formerly known as Christendom or the “Free World.”
The true purpose of climate change trading
Indeed, despite last year's United Nations agreement to “phase out” hydrocarbon energy globally, oil, gas, coal and other Carbon dioxide emissions from all sources hit record levels. Only Europe and the United States saw a decline in CO2 emissions. It is further evidence that the goal of the climate hysteria being propagated by the establishment is not to reduce CO2, but to overthrow the West and usher in a new “multipolar” world order.
Of course, the rulers of communist China, Islamic countries, Russia, and various third world kleptocratic states are not going to commit economic suicide to solve the alleged climate crisis. Ironically, the Kremlin has even been exposed as funding radical left-wing “green” groups in the United States through a Bermudian front company called Klein Limited. These organizations use their funds to lobby against U.S. energy while Russia continues to provide energy.
However, the truth is becoming more and more obvious. Azerbaijani Prime Minister Aliyev's comments on energy echo comments made by the President of COP28 in Dubai last year. Reacting to climate change hysteria by prominent Western leaders, Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber said no one seriously believes that oil will run out because once it runs out, humans will be forced to live in caves. He said he did not.
There is nothing wrong with Azerbaijanis trying to bring investment into their country and even into hydrocarbon production. What is truly scandalous is that Western governments, the Chinese Communist Party, and the totalitarian globalists within the United Nations are threatening the United States, national sovereignty, economic prosperity, and individuals in the name of “saving” the climate from gas emissions. It is an attempt to undermine the freedom of the people. life.
