(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 7. Azerbaijan and Russiadiscussed cooperation in tackling climate change, Trend reports via the official COP29 page on X.

The Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan,President of COP29 Mukhtar Babayev met Russia's Minister of Ecologyand Natural Resources Alexander Kozlov and Minister of EconomicDevelopment Maksim Reshetnikov.

The purpose of the meeting was to promote bilateral and regionalcooperation in the areas of environmental protection and climatechange.

This November, Azerbaijan will host COP29. This decision wasmade at the COP28 plenary meeting held in Dubai on December 11 lastyear. Hence, Baku will become the world's center, receiving about70–80,000 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 Germany'sBerlin, and its secretariat is located in Bonn.

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