Mukhtar Babayev, ministre de l'Écologie de l'Azerbaïdjan et ancien employé de la compagnie pétrolière nationale, a été désigné président de la COP29, qui se tiendra en novembre.
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00:00 Mukhtar Babaev, Minister of Ecology of Azerbaijan and former employee of the National Petroleum Company,
00:06 was appointed President of the COP29, which will be held in November.
00:11 This is the second consecutive year in which a man with ties to the so-called Petroleum Company
00:16 presides over a COP on climate.
00:18 Like a deja vu impression.
00:20 Azerbaijan has appointed its Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources, Mukhtar Babaev,
00:26 former employee of the Sokar Petroleum Company, as President of the 29th UN Climate Conference,
00:32 which will be held in November in Baku.
00:34 His Excellency Mukhtar Babaev was appointed President of the 29th session of the Conference of Parties,
00:41 wrote to AFP on Friday, January 5, Rashad Alaverdiyev, a ministerial official, in an email.
00:48 This will be the second consecutive year in which a COP on climate is presided over by a man
00:52 with high responsibilities in the National Petroleum Company of his country.
00:56 Last year, the United Arab Emirates, the COP28 host, had chosen Sultan Al-Jaber,
01:03 head of the National Ad-Nok Company, to preside over the UN Conference,
01:07 which ended in Dubai on an unprecedented call for a transition out of fossil fuels, a first.
01:13 The COP's outgoing president also congratulated Mukhtar Babaev,
01:18 who represented his country at the negotiations in Dubai.
01:21 "We will work with the presidents of the COP29 and COP30 in Brazil,"
01:26 wrote the editorial, "as well as with the UN Climate to make the historic and transformative success
01:32 of the COP28 a reality and maintain the 1.5 °C target within reach,"
01:37 wrote the COP28 president in a message on X.
01:41 The Azerbaijani government has also appointed Foreign Affairs Minister Yeltsin Rafiyev
01:47 as head negotiator for the COP29.
01:50 The COPs are organized each year in a different zone,
01:54 and the high-level countries are designated by consensus by the countries in the zone.
01:58 In 2023, the Asian countries had designated the Emirates,
02:03 and this year, after months of blockade, it was finally Azerbaijan
02:07 that was designated by the Eastern European countries, including Russia.
02:11 Mukhtar Babaev worked from 1994 to 2003 at the Department of Foreign and Economic Relations of SOCAR,
02:18 State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic, the country's oil and gas national company,
02:24 before changing to the Department of Marketing and Economic Operations.
02:28 From 2007 to 2010, he was Vice President in Charge of Ecology of the Petrogas Company.
02:35 He has been Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources since 2018.
02:40 The presidents of the COP, historically, have all been ministers or diplomats,
02:45 with the exception of 2023.
02:48 Sultan Al-Jaber is President of ADNOC, one of the largest gas and oil producers in the Gulf,
02:53 while having represented his country on the COP several times
02:57 and leading the Emirati Renewable Energy Society, MASDAR.
03:01 Its double cap was criticized for the risk of conflict of interest,
03:05 and documents showed a mix of genres between ADNOC's interests and those of the COP28
03:10 in the preparation of meetings with foreign governments.
03:13 The landscape of the next COP will remind the Emirates.
03:17 Baku was one of the world oil capitals at the beginning of the 20th century,
03:22 explains AFP Francis Perrin, Energy Specialist at the Institute for International and Strategic Relations,
03:28 with Russian interests, Shell and the Nobel Brothers at the time.
03:32 The country has developed, since the 1990s, large oil and gas deposits in the Caspian Sea,
03:38 he continues.
03:40 Today, gas has become more important than oil for Azerbaijan,
03:45 a member of OPEC+, mainly exported to Europe.
03:48 "The country remains today very dependent on hydrocarbons,
03:52 which represent a little less than 50% of its GDP,
03:55 a little more than 50% of its budgetary revenues
03:58 and a little more than 90% of its export revenues,"
04:01 Francis Perrin adds.
04:03 With AFP.