‘Azerbaijan can not impose any sort of resolution’ COP29’s host tells Euronews, including that the one approach ahead on the local weather summit is thru consensus.
The international coverage advisor to Azerbaijan’s president has advised Euronews that Azerbaijan is just one of 198 individuals and all of them “have their very own duties and their very own targets.”
“Azerbaijan can not impose any sort of resolution or any sort of choice to the opposite international locations,” Hikmet Hajiyev mentioned on Saturday, on the sidelines of the summit within the capital Baku.
Many critics have urged that Azerbaijan, as an oil and fuel wealthy state, was at all times going to be an unsuitable host for COP29.
“Azerbaijan doesn’t deny that Azerbaijan is an oil and fuel producer nation however we shouldn’t be handled simply on oil and fuel details, we must be handled solely on how we’re utilizing our sources for the inexperienced transformation,” Hajiyev replied.
“COP is predicated on actual details and we also needs to settle for inconvenient truths, what’s an inconvenient reality? That there’s a main producer of oil and fuel, however there’s additionally duty on the international locations based mostly on the idea of frequent and differentiated duty,” Hajiyev added.
While Azerbaijan could also be extracting the fossil fuels from the bottom, many different states, notably in Europe, are shopping for these fuels and are chargeable for utilizing them of their properties, factories and autos.
Negotiators at COP29 are engaged on a deal that is likely to be value tons of of billions of euros to poorer nations. Many are within the World South and already struggling the expensive impacts of climate disasters fuelled by local weather change.
A number of specialists have mentioned one trillion {dollars} a 12 months or extra is required each to compensate for such damages and to pay for a clean-energy transition that almost all international locations cannot afford on their very own.
Samir Bejanov, the deputy lead negotiator of this 12 months’s local weather talks, mentioned at a information convention that the local weather finance talks had been transferring too slowly.
“I wish to repeat our robust encouragement to all events to make as a lot progress as potential,” he mentioned. “We’d like everybody to strategy the duty with urgency and willpower.”
Diego Pacheco, a negotiator from Bolivia, mentioned that the sum of money on the desk for growing international locations must be “loud and clear.”
“No extra speeches however actual cash,” he mentioned.
Observers had been additionally dissatisfied on the tempo of progress.
“This has been the worst first week of a COP in my 15 years of attending this summit,” mentioned Mohamed Adow, of local weather suppose tank Energy Shift Africa. “There’s no readability on the local weather finance objective, the standard of the finance or the way it’s going to be made accessible to susceptible international locations.”
“I sense quite a lot of frustration, particularly among the many growing nation blocks right here,” he mentioned.
Panama setting minister Juan Carlos Navarro agreed, telling The Related Press he’s “not inspired” by what he’s seeing at COP29 to date.
“What I see is quite a lot of speak and little or no motion,” he mentioned, noting that Panama is among the many group of nations least chargeable for warming emissions however most susceptible to the injury attributable to local weather change-fuelled disasters.
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