COP29 HyCOPrisy
EU Watchdog Radio
Corporate Europe Observatory and Counter Balance
5 • 1 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
After pressuring Azerbaijan to up gas production for export, the EU is using COP29 to greenwash the fossil fuel and its own climate image. In this episode we talk to Pascoe Sabido, campaigner and researcher at CEO, about his analyse the EU's hypocrisy as its climate goals and upholding human rights are overtaken by energy security demands and greenwashing.
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| 0:00.0 | The way it's trying to justify increasing gas and pushing gas to increase its gas |
| 0:07.4 | is by claiming that the Azeri gas is lower carbon. |
| 0:25.2 | You're listening to EU Watchdog Radio. |
| 0:30.5 | Hi, and welcome to a brand new episode of EU Watchdog Radio. |
| 0:34.9 | I'm Joanna Lossin, Combs Officer at Corporate Europe Observatory. |
| 0:38.0 | And today I'll talk to my colleague Pasco Sabido about his research into how the EU is using COP, the Climate Summit, |
| 0:43.9 | to rebrand Azerbaijan's gas as sustainable. |
| 0:48.1 | After a bit of technical difficulties... |
| 0:51.0 | Right, do you hear me? |
| 0:52.8 | Do you hear me? You don't hear me. I know here hear you, yeah. Take you to the bedroom, Baskol. |
| 0:59.0 | Okay. People might misinterpret that, Joanna. Luckily, we've not pressed record yet. I have. By the way, for clarity purposes, it was recorded online, so I was just taking the laptop into the bedroom. |
| 1:13.4 | But we did manage to do the recording and this episode will be published almost as we recorded it. |
| 1:19.8 | So, make yourself comfortable and enjoy. |
| 1:24.2 | Hi, Pascal. |
| 1:26.6 | Hey, Joanna. How are you? Good. How are you? I'm not bad. I'm not bad. I'm |
| 1:32.3 | slightly shaken by the US elections. We're recording this on the morning, so it's like, |
| 1:37.8 | yeah, this is maybe, yeah, as you said, not unexpected, but still quite a shock. Yeah, definitely. |
| 1:47.0 | But we are here today to talk not about the US elections, but about your new work on Azerbaijan. |
| 1:56.0 | Indeed, COP 29, which is supposed to happen in, yeah, on 11th of November. |
| 2:03.1 | Obviously, it's going to be massively impacted by the US elections, but we wanted to tell a slightly different story about COP 29. |
| 2:11.8 | A story all about methane. |
| 2:14.5 | When I say methane, what comes to mind, Joanna? |
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