Azerbaijan To Host Precop Event In October (UPDATED)

9/6/2024 10:08:40 AM

(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 6. Azerbaijan will host a PreCOP event on October 10-11, Advisor to the Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan Rustam Hasanov said during the Law and Climate International conference in Baku today, Trend reports.

He noted that the event will bring together the environmental ministers of the countries, which will join COP29 as parties, and also discuss the agenda of the event, including upcoming issues.

To decode, each conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework convention on Climate Change is preceded by a preparation meeting known as the PreCop, which takes place around a month in advance. The goal of this meeting is to give a selected group of countries with an informal setting to debate and exchange opinions on some major political aspects of the negotiations in order to offer, to the extent possible, political advice for future negotiations.

“We continue our joint efforts with the parties to finalize the preparation process as soon as possible. In order to solve organizational issues of the event, the COP29 Presidium Office was formed and the COP29 Azerbaijan Operating Company was established. Baku Olympic Stadium was chosen as the main venue for the event. It is not excluded that COP29 events will be held in other places. The conference will be held in November. Before that, PreCOP will be hosted in Azerbaijan on October 10-11. It will also be attended by environment ministers of the countries that will participate in COP29, and the agenda of the event, including upcoming issues, will be discussed,” the advisor noted.

To note, the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) will be held in Azerbaijan 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 Rio Earth Summit 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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