cop29 UN Climate betrayel when conference official filmed promoting oil deals at COP29 climate conference "A senior official at COP29 climate change conference in Azerbaijan appears to have used his role to arrange a meeting to discuss potential fossil fuel deals, the BBC can report. A secret recording shows the chief executive of Azerbaijan's COP29 team, Elnur Soltanov, discussing "investment opportunities" in the state oil and gas company with a man posing as a potential investor. "We have a lot of gas fields that are to be developed," he says. A former head of the UN body responsible for the climate talks told the BBC that Soltanov's actions were "completely unacceptable" and a "betrayal" of the COP process." Green Party withdraws support for UN Climate Conference The CBC reports the Green Party joining all other Canadian opposition parties, has boycotted the Conference and while the NYTimes claims the US is formally pulling out of the Paris convention on climate change (as welll as moving thre EPA out of Washington) juat after China reported less fossil fuel emissions than the previous year for the first time since covid due to solar and other alternative sources of remote energy generation.