Président COP29 Azerbaïdjan : ancien de compagnie pétrolière nationale

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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. - L'info en continu  https://buzzplus.fr/ Infos, news & actualités - L'information internationale en direct.

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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.

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