(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, April 29. Several newinitiatives will be put forward by COP29 Presidency at COP29 inAzerbaijan, Huseyn Huseynov, Head of Sustainable Development andSocial Policy Department at the Ministry of Economy of the Republicof Azerbaijan said during a presentation titled“On the Road toCOP29 - Priorities and Agenda” held as part of the IslamicDevelopment Bank Group (IsDB) annual meetings in Riyadh, Trend reports.
“A number of new initiatives are expected to be put forward byCOP29 Presidency at COP29. Preparation and agreement of thoseinitiatives are discussed within the Negotiators' group headed bythe Lead Negotiator at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,” hesaid.
Huseynov noted that at COP29 talks will center on climatefinance, transparency and NDCs.
“COP29 will be about bringing all these elements together todrive the process forward. The organizing committee consists of atotal of 57 members from government and NGO representatives. Inorder to move quickly from negotiated text to real worldimplementation and enhance collaboration between COP PresidenciesCOP Presidencies Troika mechanism was established,” he said.
Huseynov pointed out that the UNFCCC and COP29 Presidency has animportant job to support parties to deliver their first BiennialTransparency Reports by the end of this year.
“These reports are essential for tracking progress and buildingtrust and confidence, and COP29 will organize a series ofworkshops, starting in Azerbaijan in May, to support the parties,”he said.
Azerbaijan will host the 29th session of the Conference of theParties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) inNovember this year. The decision was made at the plenary meeting ofCOP28 held in Dubai on December 11 last year. Within two weeks,Baku, having become the center of the world, will host about70,000–80,000 foreign guests.
The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change is an agreementsigned at the Rio Earth Summit in June 1992 to prevent dangeroushuman interference in the climate system. The acronym COP(Conference of Parties) stands for Conference of Parties, which isthe highest legislative body overseeing the implementation of theFramework Convention on Climate Change.
The parties to the convention are 198 countries. Unless theparties have decided otherwise, COP is held annually. The first COPevent was held in March 1995 in Germany's Berlin, and itssecretariat is located in Bonn.
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