Former US Vice President Al Gore says it is "absurd" to host UN climate talks in petrostates and says the way decisions are made on who gets to be a delegate to the conferences should be reformed, with tests for oil companies wishing to attend. Azerbaijan, a major oil and gas producer is currently hosting COP29 in Baku.
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00:00I think it is absurd to have these petro-states that are so dependent on continuing the sale
00:07of oil and gas be the hosts of these cops because it's hard to miss the fact that they
00:13have a direct conflict of interest.
00:16Azerbaijan for all of its good qualities that people here talk about gets 90% of its balance
00:25of payments in the form of revenue from selling oil and gas.
00:30I think that there should be a test for who is qualified to be a delegate to these cops.
00:39Are they coming to try to find a solution or are they coming in order to block a solution?
00:46And if they are from a fossil fuel company, I think there's a simple and fair test that
00:54we could apply.
00:56Are they committed to phasing out fossil fuels?
01:01Are they truth tellers?
01:02Do they have a record of lying about the climate crisis as unfortunately several of the oil
01:08companies do?