{"id":121942,"date":"2024-01-08T07:56:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T05:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/cop29-azerbaijan-appoints-former-oil-executive-as-climate-conference-president\/"},"modified":"2024-01-08T07:56:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T05:56:40","slug":"cop29-azerbaijan-appoints-former-oil-executive-as-climate-conference-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/cop29-azerbaijan-appoints-former-oil-executive-as-climate-conference-president\/","title":{"rendered":"COP29: Azerbaijan appoints former oil executive as climate conference president"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121942\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nAzerbaijan has appointed Ecology Minister Mukhtar Babayev as the President-Designate to oversee the COP29 climate conference later this year in Baku.<\/p>\n<p>The COP28 presidency account on social media platform X announced Babayev as the President-Designate of COP29, alongside HE Yalchin Rafiyev, appointed as the Lead Negotiator of COP29. Since 2018, Babayev has been in position as the Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan Republic. Prior to his ministerial role, Babayev worked in the Department of Foreign Economic Relations of the State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SOCAR).<\/p>\n<p>Azerbaijan, historically linked to the oil industry\u2019s origins, follows the UAE from last year and Egypt in 2022 as the third consecutive oil and gas exporter to host the UN Climate Conference. During the COP28 summit in Dubai last year, more than 2000 lobbyists representing the fossil fuel industry were given access, indicating an unprecedented level of involvement in the climate talks, according to an analysis from the Kick Big Polluters Out (KBPO) coalition.<\/p>\n<p>With Babayev appointed as the President-Designate and his ties to the oil sector, there are concerns that discussions reminiscent of Al Jaber\u2019s COP28 presidency will resurface, focusing on the influence of fossil fuel industry participants in shaping the COP outcomes. Global Witness\u2019 fossil fuels campaign leader Alice Harrison said: \u201cThere\u2019s a sense of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu setting in \u2013 we now have a former oil executive from an authoritarian petrostate in charge of the world\u2019s response to the crisis that fossil fuel firms created. \u201cWe again call for the UNFCCC to urgently intervene to ensure the talks are held in good faith.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.edie.net\/cop29-azerbaijan-appoints-former-oil-executive-as-climate-conference-president\/\">edie.net<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/cop29-azerbaijan-appoints-former-oil-executive-as-climate-conference-president\/\">COP29: Azerbaijan appoints former oil executive as climate conference president<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[12817,12818,575],"class_list":["post-121942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-azerbijan","tag-cop29","tag-environmental-news-en"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}