Ilham Aliyev, Azerbaijan president, speaks during a plenary session at the COP29 Climate Summit.The president of the nation hosting a major climate summit has praised oil and gas as a “gift of God”.Azerbaijan leader Ilham Aliyev also accused western nations of “double standards” for buying fossil fuels from his country while urging the world to go green.His comments, at the COP29 summit in Baku, came as Keir Starmer pledged that the UK would ramp up its efforts to slash carbon emissions.Under the proposal, Britain would reduce the amount of greenhouse gases it pumps into the atmosphere to 81% of 1990 levels by 2035.But that promise is likely to be overshadowed by Aliyev’s outspoken comments.In his speech to the summit, the Azerbaijani president said oil and gas were “a gift of God” like any other natural resource.“Countries should not be blamed for having them and should not be blamed for bringing these resources to the market because the market needs them,” he said. “The people need them.”In another section of his speech, he said: “Unfortunately double standards, a habit to lecture other countries and political hypocrisy bec