Azerbaijan, IPC Mull Over COP29 Preparation
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 4. Minister of
Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan Mukhtar Babayev has met
with the Secretary General of the International Parliamentarians
Congress (IPC), Senator Sitara Ayaz, Trend reports via the
Azerbaijani Ministry of Ecology.
The ministry noted that at the meeting an exchange of views took
place on preparations for the 29th session of the conference of the
Parties to the UN Framework convention on Climate Change (COP29),
which will be held in Azerbaijan in November this year.
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 Germany's
Berlin with its secretariat in Bonn.
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