because Azerbaijan, like all other gas and oil producing countries, extract as long as there are buyers, like us Europeans. Some doubts arise when we learn that the increase promised to Ursula von der Leyen, from 8 billion cubic meters of gas exported to Europe in 2021 to 20 billion in 2027 to free ourselves from Russian gas, seems unachievable to some experts: "At most it will reach 15 billion cubic meters", argued Gubad Ibadoghlu, an economist at the London Business School, an Azeri, before being arrested. It is expected that the missing gas will come from Turkmenistan and, ironically, from Russia.
Further concerns should arise when reading news about the high level of pollution in the extraction areas, some of which are already in the vicinity of Baku, with heavy impacts on the environment phone number library and, consequently, on the health of people and animals.
It is a situation common to all countries extracting fossil fuels, which is useful to remember to understand that the problem of climate change is certainly serious and urgent, but it is precisely in the extracting countries that the highest prices are paid: diseases from pollution due to the presence of deposits, abysmal economic disparities (the wealth of oil and gas is certainly not correctly distributed), dictatorial regimes. And these countries also suffer from global warming, caused by the same source of their wealth: in Azerbaijan the Caspian Sea is lowering by 6-7 centimeters per year and can be fished 25-30 km from the coast, when a few years ago it was enough to move away by 2-3 km.
In short, it is difficult to understand the rationale behind the choice, for the third consecutive year, of a country that extracts fossil fuels, except that these are countries that on the one hand have the financial strength necessary to support part of the organizational costs (the UN contributes, but a significant portion remains with the host country) and on the other hand they want to show themselves both for an understandable tourist promotion and to compensate in some way for an image inevitably marked by the dirty gas and oil on which they base their economy.