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QUOTES-What are they stating at the COP29 climate top?

World leaders are speaking at the U.N. climate top in Baku on Tuesday where United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has actually informed them to pay up to prevent climateled humanitarian disasters.

Here are the current comments:

UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY-GENERAL ANTONIO GUTERRES

The noise you hear is the ticking clock. We remain in the last countdown to restrict international temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) and time is not on our side.

Doubling down on fossil fuels is unreasonable. The clean energy revolution is here. No group, no business, and no government can stop it. But you can and need to guarantee it is fair, and quick enough to limit international temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

There is no time to lose on climate financing, the world must pay up, or humankind will pay the rate.

AZERBAIJAN PRESIDENT ILHAM ALIYEV

When they call us a petrostate now today, this is not fair, and it only shows the absence of political culture and understanding. Today, Azerbaijan's share in global oil production is 0.7(%), in worldwide gas production (it) is 0.9%.

But phony news media of the nation, which is (the) number one oil and gas manufacturer in the world and produces 30 times more oil than Azerbaijan, call us petrostate. They much better look at themselves.

Azerbaijan's share in global gas emissions is just 0.1%. I. need to bring these figures to the attention of our audience,. because right after Azerbaijan was elected as a host nation of. COP29, we ended up being a target of a coordinated, well-orchestrated. campaign of slander and blackmail.

Western fake news media and so-called independent NGOs and. some politicians, as if (they) were completing in spreading. disinformation and false info about our nation.

BARBADOS PRIME MINISTER MIA MOTTLEY

The truth is that these extreme weather events that the. world is facing daily recommend that humanity and the planet are. hurtling towards catastrophe.

The severe weather condition requires from us a severe commitment. at this COP with regard to new collective, measured goals. that enable us to reverse the present trajectory and to fund. mitigation, adjustment, and, obviously, loss and damage.

Every COP should make progress, irrespective of the. geopolitical dynamics. There's an urgent need to reform this police. procedure, and I hope that we can meet that.

MALDIVES PRESIDENT MOHAMED MUIZZU

It is the absence of financing that prevents our ambitions,. which is why this police, the financing police officer, we require to deliver. The. brand-new environment finance objective must show the true scale of the. environment crisis. The requirement remains in trillions, not billions. It must. think about the special situations of small island establishing. states.

As we take a look around the world, we see funds running easily to. wage war, but scrutinised when it's for environment adjustment. We. need to reprioritise, modify the worldwide monetary system. We need to choose the path that alters lives, not the environment.

CONGO REPUBLIC PRESIDENT DENIS SASSOU NGUESSO (via. translator)

We're especially concerned over the concern of climate. financing.

The new cumulative quantified objective for environment financing. should be based on clinical information that takes into consideration the. effect and needs of establishing nations in tackling environment. change.

We know that these requirements amount to over $1,000 billion. Our. impassioned dream is that the quantity in this brand-new goal will be. established and defined from a perspective of environment justice. and the just shift. This objective must enable our. countries to lower our debt burden rather than worsen it.

BELARUS PRESIDENT ALEXANDER LUKASHENKO (by means of translator)

Today, when there's been so much issue about the. deterioration of climate, all we see is individuals who are. responsible for this are missing ... and we have actually simply had the. governmental election in the United States.

So the concern is, how reliable are our actions at such. conferences? When the president of France, which was the nation. responsible for the Paris Contract, is not even here?

There's absolutely nothing to be happy about at present.

EUROPEAN COUNCIL PRESIDENT CHARLES MICHEL (through translator)

This is how the Paris agreement must be - our peace. treaty with nature: the concept of cooperation ought to govern. our execution of this contract, boldness instead of. procrastination, solidarity rather of selfishness, aspiration. rather of surrender. We need to opt for the survival instinct. instead of burying our heads in the sand.

We hope that this COP will be among self-confidence,. decision, and the COP that will stroll the talk. You can. count on the European Union.

CHINA SPECIAL AGENT DING XUEXIANG (through translator)

We get in touch with developed nations to increase monetary. assistance and innovation transfer for establishing countries, and. anticipate more ambitious funding targets to be set at COP29 so that. self-confidence and assurances can be attended to an international environment. action in the next phase..

(source: Reuters)