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QUOTES-What are they saying at the U.N. environment 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 catastrophes.

Here are the latest remarks:

UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY-GENERAL ANTONIO GUTERRES

The sound you hear is the ticking clock. We are in the final countdown to limit worldwide temperature level rise 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 transformation is here. No group, no organization, and no federal government can stop it. But you can and must ensure it is fair, and fast enough to limit global temperature level rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

There is no time at all to lose on climate financing, the world must pay up, or humanity will pay the price.

AZERBAIJAN PRESIDENT ILHAM ALIYEV

When they call us a petrostate now today, this is unfair, and it only demonstrates the lack of political culture and understanding. Today, Azerbaijan's share in international oil production is 0.7(%), in international gas production (it) is 0.9%.

However phony news media of the nation which is (the) number one oil and gas manufacturer on the planet and produces 30 times more oil than Azerbaijan, call us petrostate. They much better take a 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 chosen as a host country of. COP29, we became a target of a collaborated, well-orchestrated. project of slander and blackmail.

Western fake news media therefore called independent NGOs and. some political leaders, as if (they) were contending in dispersing. disinformation and false info about our country.

MALDIVES PRESIDENT MOHAMED MUIZZU

It is the absence of finance that hinders our ambitions,. which is why this police, the finance COP, we need to deliver. The. brand-new environment financing objective must reflect the real scale of the. environment crisis. The requirement is in trillions, not billions. It must. consider the special scenarios of little island developing. states.

As we take a look around the globe, we see funds flowing freely to. wage war, but scrutinised when it's for climate adaptation. We. need to reprioritise, revise the worldwide monetary system. We must pick the course that changes lives, not the climate.

CONGO REPUBLIC PRESIDENT DENIS SASSOU NGUESSO (through. translator)

We're particularly concerned over the concern of climate. funding.

The brand-new collective quantified goal for environment funding. must be based upon scientific information that takes into consideration the. effect and needs of developing nations in taking on environment. change.

We understand that these needs amount to over $1000 billion. Our. fervent wish is that the quantity in this new objective will be. developed and defined from a perspective of environment justice. and the simply transition. This objective must allow our. nations to lower our debt concern instead of intensify it.

BELARUS PRESIDENT ALEXANDER LUKASHENKO (via translator)

Today, when there's been a lot concern about the. degeneration of environment, all we see is individuals who are. accountable for this are missing ... and we have actually simply had the. presidential election in the United States.

So the concern is, how reliable are our actions at such. meetings? When the president of France, which was the country. accountable for the Paris Arrangement, is not even here?

There's nothing to be happy about at present.

EUROPEAN COUNCIL PRESIDENT CHARLES MICHEL (by means of translator)

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

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

(source: Reuters)