(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 30. The first"International Energy Agency (IEA) - COP29" high-level dialoguewill be held in Paris on May 15, said Fatih Birol, IEA ExecutiveDirector, Trend reports.
"Looking forward to hosting our 1st IEA-COP29 High-LevelDialogue on 15 May in Paris," he wrote on his page on X, followingthe meeting with COP29 President-Designate Mukhtar Babayev.
Birol once again reiterated IEA's support for countries on newNationally Determined Contributions, as well as ensuring successfuloutcomes of COP29 in Baku this year.
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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