(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 2. The United NationsDevelopment Program (UNDP) has outlined its focal points forcollaboration with the Azerbaijani government on NationalAdaptation Plans, which encompass the nation's commitments tomitigate climate change, Trend reports via UNDPAzerbaijan.

"In Azerbaijan, our collaboration with the government focuses on'National Adaptation Plans' across three primary domains: enhancingwater purification, addressing coastal area concerns, and improvingagricultural efficiency," UNDP Resident Representative a.i. inAzerbaijan Alessandra Roccasalvo said.

According to her, water (including the Caspian Sea and rivers)constitutes Azerbaijan's most crucial "asset," and all three UNDPpriorities in the country are, in one form or another, linked towater.

"We want to help in reducing harmful emissions, protecting watersources, and purifying them," Roccasalvo added.

She noted that the preservation and safeguarding of clean watersources are among the topics deliberated at the Conferences of theParties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP) andanticipates that this subject will be addressed at COP29.

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 Conference of the Parties-is the highest legislative bodyoverseeing 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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