Two Concurrent COP29 Preparations Underway - Deputy Minister
Date
5/11/2024 12:35:36 AM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 10. Two parallelprocesses of preparation for COP29 are currently underway,Azerbaijan's Deputy energy Minister, COP29 CEO Elnur Soltanov said,Trend reports.
He made the statement during the roundtable on strategicforesight at ADA University.
"Two parallel preparation processes for COP29 are currentlyunderway. First, it is the negotiation stage, and second, it is thedrafting of the action program for this conference. These processesinvolve different people and different approaches," heemphasized.
Soltanov stated that the negotiation process bases decisions onconsensus.
"This means that not all parties to the convention should agree,but no one should object," he explained.
Azerbaijan will host the 29th session of the Conference of theParties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) inNovember this year. The plenary meeting of COP28 in Dubai onDecember 11 last year made the decision. 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.
Meanwhile, 198 countries are parties to the convention. Unlessthe parties have decided otherwise, COP is held annually. The firstCOP event was held in March 1995 in Germany's Berlin, and itssecretariat is located in Bonn.
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