Azerbaijan's COP29 Presidency Holds Meeting With Leaders Of Negotiating Groups In Bonn
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 6. Azerbaijan`s COP29
Presidency has held a meeting with the leaders of negotiating
groups, including Türkiye and Russia, in Bonn, Germany, Trend
reports.
The meeting, within the framework of the UN International
Climate Conference, saw the participation of representatives from
key negotiating blocs including the G77, the European Union, the
Umbrella Group, and Least Developed Countries (LDC).
Mukhtar Babayev, Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources and
COP29 President-designate, engaged in discussions concerning
Azerbaijan's agenda for the event.
Climate finance emerged as a central theme, with a focus on
augmenting financial assistance to developing nations in pursuit of
their climate objectives. Parties underscored the significance of
honoring climate finance commitments to bolster adaptation and
mitigation efforts against climate change.
The meeting stressed the imperative for countries to revise and
implement their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC)
documents.
This November, Azerbaijan will host COP29. This decision was
made at the COP28 plenary meeting held in Dubai on December 11 last
year. Baku will become the center of the world and will receive
about 70–80,000 foreign guests.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is an
agreement signed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992
to prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system.
COP - the Conference of the Parties - is the highest legislative
body overseeing the implementation of the Framework Convention on
Climate Change. There are 198 countries that are parties to the
Convention. Unless the parties agree otherwise, the COP is held
annually. The first COP event took place in March 1995 in Berlin,
and its secretariat is located in Bonn.
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