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By bne IntelliNews A damning investigation has revealed that Azerbaijan’s COP29 leadership attempted to use the UN climate summit to broker fossil fuel deals, drawing fierce criticism from former UN climate chief Christiana Figueres, who condemned the actions as ‘a treason’ to the climate process. Secret recordings and documents obtained through an undercover operation by Global Witness, and reviewed by the BBC, show Azerbaijan’s COP29 chief executive Elnur Soltanov discussing oil and gas investment opportunities with individuals he believed represented a Hong Kong investment firm. ‘We have a …