A senior authority at COP29 environmental change gathering in Azerbaijan seems to play utilized his part to orchestrate a gathering to examine potential petroleum derivative arrangements, the BBC can report.
A mystery recording shows the CEO of Azerbaijan's COP29 group, Elnur Soltanov, examining "speculation valuable open doors" in the state oil and gas organization with a man acting like a possible financial backer.
"We have a ton of gas handles that are to be created," he says.
A previous top of the UN body liable for the environment talks let the BBC know that Soltanov's activities were "totally inadmissible" and a "treachery" of the COP cycle.
As well just like the CEO of COP29, Soltanov is additionally the appointee energy clergyman of Azerbaijan and is on the leading group of Socar.
Azerbaijan's COP29 group has not answered a solicitation for input
Oil and gas represents about portion of Azerbaijan's complete economy and over 90% of its commodities, as indicated by US figures.
COP29 will open in Baku on Monday and is the 29th yearly UN environment culmination, where states examine how to restrict and get ready for environmental change, and raise worldwide desire to handle the issue.
Notwithstanding, this is the second year straight the BBC has uncovered claimed bad behavior by the host government.
The BBC has been shown archives and mystery video accounts made by the basic freedoms association, Worldwide Observer.
It is perceived that one of its delegates moved toward the COP29 group acting like the top of a made up Hong Kong trading company gaining practical experience in energy.
He said this organization was keen on supporting the COP29 highest point yet needed to talk about venture valuable open doors in Azerbaijan's state energy firm, Socar, consequently. An internet meeting with Soltanov was organized.
During the gathering, Soltanov let the potential support know that the point of the meeting was "tackling the environment emergency" and "changing away from hydrocarbons in a fair, precise and impartial way".
Anybody, he said, including oil and gas organizations, "could concoct arrangements" since Azerbaijan's "entryways are open".
In any case, he said he was available to conversations about bargains as well - remembering for oil and gas.
At first, Soltanov recommended the potential support may be keen on putting resources into a portion of the "green changing ventures" Socar was engaged with - however at that point discussed open doors connected with Azerbaijan's arrangements to increment gas creation, including new pipeline foundation.
"There are a ton of joint endeavors that could be laid out," Soltanov says on the recording. "Socar is exchanging oil and gas from one side of the planet to the other, remembering for Asia."
Soltanov then, at that point, portrayed flammable gas as a "temporary fuel", adding: "We will have a specific measure of oil and petroleum gas being delivered, maybe for eternity."
The UN environment science body, the Intergovernmental Board on Environmental Change, recognizes there will be a job for some oil and gas up to 2050 and then some. Notwithstanding, it has been exceptionally evident that "growing… new oil and gas fields is incongruent with restricting warming to 1.5C".
It additionally conflicts with the arrangement the world made at the last worldwide environment culmination to progress away from petroleum derivatives.
Soltanov seemed anxious to assist with getting conversations moving, telling the likely support: "I would be glad to make a contact between your group and their group [Socar] so they can begin conversations."
A long time later the phony Hong Kong speculation organization got an email - Socar needed to circle back to the lead.
Endeavoring to carry on with work bargains as a feature of the COP cycle gives off an impression of being a serious break of the guidelines of lead expected of a COP official.
These occasions should be tied in with decreasing the world's utilization of petroleum products - the fundamental driver of environmental change - not selling more.
The guidelines are set by the UN body liable for environment exchanges, the Assembled Countries Structure Show on Environmental Change (UNFCCC).
The UN said it couldn't remark straightforwardly on our discoveries yet commented that "similar thorough norms" are applied to whoever has the meeting, and that those principles mirror "the significance of fair-mindedness with respect to all directing officials".
Its overarching set of rules for COP authorities states they are "expected to act without predisposition, bias, partiality, inclination, personal responsibility, inclination or respect, stringently founded on sound, free and fair judgment.
"They are likewise expected to guarantee that individual perspectives and convictions don't think twice about seem to think twice about job and works as an UNFCCC official."
Christiana Figueres, who administered the marking of the 2015 Paris Consent to restrict worldwide temperature climbs to well underneath 2C, let the BBC know that she was stunned anybody in the COP cycle would utilize their situation to work out oil and gas agreements.
She said such way of behaving was "opposite and heinous" to the reason for COP and "a treachery" to the interaction.
The BBC has likewise seen messages between the COP29 group and the phony financial backers.
In one chain, the group examines a $600,000 (£462,000) sponsorship manage a phony organization as a trade-off for the Socar presentation and contribution in an occasion about "reasonable oil and gas financial planning" during COP29.
Authorities offered five passes with full admittance to the culmination and drafted an agreement which at first expected the firm to earnestly commit to maintainability. Then it pushed back, one prerequisite was dropped and "adjustments" were considered for another.
The BBC asked Azerbaijan's COP29 group and Socar for input. Neither answered the solicitations.
The discoveries come a year after the BBC got spilled reports that uncovered plans by the UAE to involve its job as host of COP28 to make oil and gas agreements.
COP28 was whenever an arrangement first was arrived at on the need to progress away from petroleum derivatives.
SOURCE: BBC