Azerbaijan's Ecology Minister Highlights Parallels Between NAM Activism And Combating Climate Change
Date
6/20/2024 5:20:00 AM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 20. During its
presidency of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), Azerbaijan has
contributed to global action against the pandemic and intends to
play an important role in the fight against climate change, COP29
President and Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of
Azerbaijan Mukhtar Babayev said, Trend reports.
He made the remark during his speech at the Climate Change
Action Forum of the Non-Aligned Movement Youth Organization held in
Baku on June 20.
"We once achieved that a UN resolution on equitable access to
vaccines for all countries was adopted. We also held a summit on
post-pandemic recovery in 2023, where President of the Republic of
Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev announced two global appeals: to support
post-pandemic recovery in Africa and Small Island Developing
States," the Minister recalled.
According to him, the parallels between COVID-19 and the joint
fight against climate change are not accidental, as they are meant
to solve global issues.
"It is absolutely essential to bring the whole world together to
respond to common climate challenges and to ensure that our
response during COP29 is tailored to the individual circumstances
of each country," the minister emphasized.
To note, Azerbaijan will host the 29th session of the Conference
of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
(COP29) in November this year. The decision was made at the plenary
meeting of COP28 held in Dubai on December 11 last year. Within two
weeks, Baku, having become the center of the world, will host about
70,000–80,000 foreign guests.
The UN 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 in the climate system. The
acronym COP (Conference of Parties) stands for Conference of
Parties, which is the highest legislative body overseeing the
implementation of the Framework Convention on Climate Change. A
total of 198 countries are parties to the convention. Unless the
parties have decided otherwise, COP is held annually. The first COP
event was held in March 1995 in Berlin, and its secretariat is
located in Bonn.
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