Tony Blair sought to advise the Brazilian climate summit despite zero clean criticism

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Sir Tony Blair consulting offered to advise the COP30 climate summit in Brazil, but was demolished, before the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom dismissed the United Nations climate negotiations as “heavy for promoting action and impact.”

Blair has it caused a political storm In Britain, calling for a reestablishment of the “irrational” debate on zero clean policies, because he warned that they were asked to make voters too “financial sacrifices” and criticize the process of the coup.

The comments came in a prologue to a report by his Tony Blair institute, who previously worked closely with both the United Arab Emirates and the Azerbaijan, the hosts of the COP28 and COP29 summits, respectively, move this controversy. Blair himself was present at both events.

Tbi, who Blair Founded in 2016, Brazilian officials met at the beginning of the year, offering support as a Latin American country to organize the world’s largest climate negotiations in Belém in November, according to three people who know the discussions. The talks did not move forward, the people said.

It COP30 The presidency said that “he was not currently working or advised by the Tony Blair Institute.”

A TBI spokesman confirmed that he had “met with Brazil’s government representatives to discuss our climate work, and how our efforts can help COP30 a success”, but he disputed the “characterization” of unrefolding financial time discussions.

They added that the offer to advise Brazil was unpaid, as had been with the United Arab Emirates, although they said he had paid for his work with Azerbaijan last year.

Blair’s prologue to the TBI report asked governments to change the course on climate change approach, saying “the police process would not deliver the change to the required speed.”

The former UK leader called the summit “a forum that, frankly, does not have the weight to drive action and impact,” adding: “The great meeting of all nations has its place, although probably not every year.”

“The reality is that they are the decisions of the big countries and the direction of politics that give towards technology and financial flows, which can actually solve the climate problem,” said Blair.

The comments would be considered “deeply useful” by Brazil, said a police veteran who has participated in past climate negotiations and advises ministers from various countries.

He added that TBI “would have been more attentive (in what they wrote) if they had been working with Brazil.”

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, was forced to defend the net goals of his government, by which the country seeks to produce clean carbon emissions by 2050. The comments of Blair were widely considered as tacit criticism to the Labor Party, and in particular, the Secretary of Energy, Ed Miliband.

The TBI later said he supported the Starmer Government approach and the wider net goals.

In a statement to the FT on Thursday, TBI defended the report, arguing that the demand for fossil fuels has increased “in the last twenty years” and that “the airline’s trip will be doubled.”

“Therefore, it is unlikely that a policy based on assuming that the two facts do not exist,” said TBI. “Climate change is a serious challenge, one of the greatest confrontation with the world, but it needs policies to fight -the one that starts with reality.”

He added that the role was not written “because Mr. Blair has worked with oil producing nations who welcomed or worked on gas channeling so that Azerbaijan gas arrived in Europe.”

The Brazil faces an upward challenge that houses this year’s police after the election of Donald Trump in the United States, which has caused fears of green policies invested worldwide.

Brazil has begun in a diplomatic frenzy before the summit, with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva last week, saying that he wants to be “a significant collective effort to fulfill climate commitments” and that the “planet is tired of non -complicated promises”.

A person close to TBI said he was still waiting for the non -profit organization to have about 1,000 employees worldwide, he could still win a Brazilian advice role before COP30.

People close to the Brazilian government said this was unlikely.

“Brazil has a very, very large and professional foreign service, so the Arab Emirates and Azerbaijan do not,” said the police veteran.

Blair’s participation with the Cup Advisory Work has long been controversial. He was a great sponsor of the United Arab Emirate Police President, the Sultan al-Jaber, whose double role as head of energy companies in the United Arab Emirates unearthed the climatic campaigns.

The work of the former Prime Minister with the Government of Azerbaijan also underwent scrutiny, as his links to the ruler Fort Ilham Aliyev, who has been running the country since 2003 and has faced allegations of “ethnic cleaning” after the preparation of the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute.

The former Lucre de Blair, Tony Blair Associations, which closed in 2016, had taken on the name of trans Adriatic transfer to bring Azerbaijani gas to Europe.

TBI spokesman defended Blair’s work, arguing that “if Azerbaijan’s gas gas pipeline had not been built, the answer would not have been that Europe would not buy gas, but that it would have been further entrusted with Russian gas.”

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