At the Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Germany on Friday, Azerbaijan’s strongman president, Ilham Aliyev, made the declaration that the presence of fossil fuels in his nation was a “gift of the gods” and that he intends to expand Baku’s export to Europe on his system.
As a result of the United Nations ‘ honor of Azerbaijan for hosting this years “COP29,” the annual climate sensationalism meeting, Aliyev’s strong defense of oil and gas, which are major contributors to his country’s economy. Azerbaijan, one of the most powerful oil exporters in the world, has appointed the head of the state-run oil company there in charge of organizing the conference. The United Arab Emirates ( UAE), one of the world’s most powerful oil exporters, is now in charge of the organization.
COP29, the movie to last year’s COP28, will take place in Baku in November. The COP ( Conference of the Parties ) summits have the goal of addressing the admitted” weather crisis” the world is facing by urging Western governments to commit to reducing carbon emissions and reducing fossil fuels. Seldom do environmental activists and the tens of thousands of leaders who attend these conferences make pressure on India and China, two of the world’s best polluting nations, to impose a cap on their use of fossil energy or their carbon emissions.
At the Berlin event, Aliyev made a pledge to invest in the development of Azerbaijan’s natural fuel industry with the intention of supplying Europe, which has seen its fossil fuel supply threatened by its unwavering opposition to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
According to Aliyev, the head of the nation that is rich in fossil fuels,” we will of course defend the right of these nations to continue investing and producing,” Aliyev declared on Friday, according to Bloomberg. Oil and gas deposits are not our wrong, they say. It’s a product of the goddesses”.
According to Aliyev, the alleged author claimed that his nation was hoping to meet that demand by saying that people may require fossil energy for “many more times” at least in the European Union.
According to Aliyev,” We are essentially investing in increasing our fuel production because Europe needs more oil from fresh sources.” ” Our oil and gas may be needed for many more times, including Western industry”.
According to Aliyev,” the state will export 20 billion square meters of gas to the region by 2027,” and half of the country’s natural gas imports will go to Europe. The comments compare with those made earlier this week that the EU was willing to fund new projects and had not provided a guarantee that it would continue to purchase oil.
Following the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the European Union began expanding its reach to Azerbaijan. Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission at the time, was recalled by Politico as having traveled to Baku and calling the nation a” vital power partner” despite its autocratic government and continued eradication of Iranian Christians in the contested Nagorno-Karabakh area, which Aliyev claimed to have completed at the end of 2023.
As part of their meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan, on July 18, 2022, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev ( R ) and European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen ( L ) shake hands after signing a memorandum of understanding on increasing the import of Azeri natural gas.
The Freedom House human rights organization , ranked Nagorno- Karabakh, now devoid of its indigenous Christian population and in full control of Islamic Azerbaijan, the least free place in the world in 2024.
Azerbaijan received hosting duties for COP29 in December. By U.N. regulations, the rotating hosting duties had to move from the Middle East to Eastern Europe, but conflicts stemming from the Ukraine invasion had prevented a choice of a host on which all participants could agree. While Armenia, on the grounds of Azerbaijan’s ethnic cleansing campaign, had initially objected to its host bid, it ultimately ceded and allowed for Baku to take the COP29 mantle. It is unlikely that the Azerbaijani government will actively call for the end of the fossil fuel industry because at the time, the Guardian reported that Azerbaijan’s economy relied on oil and gas to generate “more than 92.5 % of its export revenue.”
Azerbaijan’s bid to host may still upset environmentalists slightly less than its predecessor’s, the United Arab Emirates ( UAE), one of the world’s foremost oil powerhouses. Adding outrage for climate alarmists, the UAE named the head of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company ( ADNOC), the government- run oil corporation, the president of COP28.
Scandals abounded surrounding the decision, beginning with a report accusing the United Nations of giving ADNOC access to COP28 communications and peaking when the ADNOC and COP28 president, Sultan Ahmed al- Jaber,  , declared in November,” There is , no science out there, or no scenario out there, that says that the phase- out of fossil fuel is what’s going to achieve 1.5º C”. According to climate alarmists, it is necessary to keep the earth’s temperature at 1.5oC ( 2. 7oF ) above the average before human industrialization to prevent the total destruction of humanity.
He claimed that the abrupt demise of fossil fuels would “take the world back into caves” in the same comments, which al-Jaber later claimed were “out of context.”
” I’m not in any way signing up to any discussion that is alarmist”, he insisted.
COP28 ultimately ended with no direct call for countries to abruptly end their reliance on fossil fuels, a major disappointment for environmentalists.
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