The BBC reports that Elnur Soltanov, chief executive of Azerbaijan’s team at next week's COP29 climate change conference in Baku, has been recorded promoting fossil fuel deals. Soltanov was reportedly secretly filmed while talking about the potential development of Azerbaijan's gas fields to a man posing as an investor.
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00:00BBC reporting says a senior official for Azerbaijan's upcoming COP29 climate change conference has
00:07been caught promoting fossil fuel deals.
00:09Elnur Soltanov, the chief executive of Azerbaijan's COP29 team, was reportedly secretly filmed
00:16talking about investment opportunities in the country's gas fields with a man posing
00:21as an investor.
00:22The annual UN climate change conference is scheduled to open next week in Baku.
00:27The Azerbaijan COP29 team has not yet commented on the report.