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Ilham Aliyev, Azerbaijan president, speaks during a plenary session at the COP29 Climate Summit.Azerbaijan leader Ilham Aliyev also accused western nations of “double standards” for buying fossil fuels from his country while urging the world to go green.pledged that the UK would ramp up its efforts to slash carbon emissions.
“Countries should not be blamed for having them and should not be blamed for bringing these resources to the market because the market needs them,” he said. “The people need them.”In another section of his speech, he said: “Unfortunately double standards, a habit to lecture other countries and political hypocrisy became kind of modus operandi for some politicians, state-controlled NGOs and fake news media in some Western countries.
Unveiling the UK’s new climate target at the summit, Starmer said: “We set out the target, which is an important, ambitious target, what we are not going to do is start telling people how to live their lives.
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