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“Many climate observers had hoped Azerbaijan would seize the opportunity at the UN General Assembly to show leadership by setting ambitious new targets.”
“There had been a very wide gap among the positions of the US and China,” explained Rafiyev, who was speaking at the margins of the UN’s annual high-level summit, and is tasked with steering negotiations between world leaders at the COP29 negotiations in Baku this November. More than a decade ago, wealthy nations — including the United States, European Union, Japan and others — pledged to deliver $100 billion annually by 2020 to support developing countries.
However, he declined to weigh in on the Global North’s push to expand the pool of contributors, stressing the host country’s need to stay neutral. Instead, Rafiyev said Azerbaijan would “do our best” to release its new climate strategy ahead of the Baku summit, and was coordinating with Brazil and the UAE -— the next and previous COP hosts — towards this goal.Rafiyev brushed off suggestions that reliance on fossil fuels extraction made Azerbaijan an inappropriate venue for the climate summit.
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