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A row has broken out at COP29 climate talks as leading countries said a draft deal risked going back on a historic agreement to reduce the use of planet-warming fossil fuels.

Groups call for protests over countries' role in supplying Israel with nearly 30 percent of its oil

The pipeline transports Azerbaijani crude oil to the Turkish port of Ceyhan, supplying Israel with 28 percent of its oil imports at a time when Israel is waging war on Gaza and Lebanon.

The pipeline is majority owned by BP, with Azerbaijan’s state-owned oil company Socar the second-largest shareholder.

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Turkish relations with Israel have plummeted since the Gaza war began, (...)

However, Lorne Stockman, the author of a report by advocacy group Oil Change International, which tracked oil shipments to Israel up until July, said that their data sources showed multiple shipments from Ceyhan since May.

“We reached out to our data sources and they are seeing shipments that are registered as having come from the BTC [ Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan] terminus, which is Ceyhan, and arrived in Ashkelon in September and October and November.”

November 19, 2024

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The main explanation for continuous underforcasts by IEA, is that their rolodex includes only oil companies, and that's who they ask.

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The Climate Policy Institute attending the UN summit was founded by a state-backed think tank which has received fossil fuel funding.

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I'm not sure their method of assessing ability to respond is quite there — a lot of it is about community-building, and the things they use (eg: spending on shared infrastructure) are very rough proxies for that. Still, it's making an effort in a direction that I haven't seen others do.