(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 15. Azerbaijan seesgreen transition among its national priorities, President of the29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN FrameworkConvention on Climate Change (COP29) Mukhtar Babayev said duringthe first press conference of the COP29 presidency, Trend reports.
He mentioned that hosting COP29 in Azerbaijan demonstrates theinternational community's trust in the policies pursued by thecountry under the leadership of President Ilham Aliyev at bothnational and international levels, including efforts to addressclimate change.
"Within the framework of the presidency and the hosting ofCOP29, our country will demonstrate continuous activity towardsstrengthening global solidarity on climate change issues,"emphasized Babayev.
Babayev also noted that Azerbaijan has joined the Global MethanePledge, which involves voluntary commitments by states to reducemethane emissions, and has set a goal to increase the share ofrenewable energy sources in installed electricity capacity to 30percent by 2030.
This November, Azerbaijan will host COP29. This decision wasmade at the COP28 plenary meeting held in Dubai on December 11 lastyear. Baku will become the center of the world and will receiveabout 70–80,000 foreign guests.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is anagreement signed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992to prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system COP-the Conference of the Parties-is the highest legislativebody overseeing the implementation of the Framework Convention onClimate Change. There are 198 countries that are parties to theConvention. Unless the parties agree otherwise, the COP is heldannually. The first COP event took place in March 1995 in Berlin,and its secretariat is located in Bonn.
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