Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has sharply criticized the ongoing UN climate conference. “This summit, like the last, is a pure act of greenwashing,” the 21-year-old wrote. Azerbaijan’s entire economy is based on fossil fuels, oil and gas.
Contrary to what it claims, the government has no ambition to pursue climate protection. Instead, it plans to expand oil and gas production, which is completely incompatible with the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement and limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Thunberg now writes this in a commentary in the British newspaper ‘Guardian’.
The regime in Baku is said to be desperately trying to whitewash the image. The climate activist also accused the authoritarian leadership of, among other things, trampling on human rights. For example, it would make it more difficult to hold peaceful protests and repress the population.
You can see Thunberg’s post on Platform X here.
Schilling wants to meet political prisoners
Thunberg is currently in neighboring Georgia, but does not plan to attend COP29, which started this Monday.
Austrian EU MP Lena Schilling (Greens) also expressed similar concerns. “We cannot allow fossil fuel autocrats to use the climate conference to burnish their international image as they continue to trample on human rights and fuel the climate crisis,” she said in a statement. Together with nine other EU parliamentarians, Schilling wants to meet political prisoners in Azerbaijan and local Justice Minister Farid Ahmadov.
The three prisoners to whom the politicians want access are the environmental activist Anar Mammadli, the journalist Nargiz Absalamova and the economist and critic of his country’s oil and gas industry, Gubad Ibadoghlu.
The climate conference lasts two weeks and representatives from 200 countries are expected. Schilling travels next week.
Source: Krone
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