COP29 President Discusses Summit Preparations With World Bank Delegates (PHOTO)
Date
9/17/2024 5:19:45 AM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 17. The COP29
President-Designate and Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources
of Azerbaijan, Mukhtar Babayev held a productive meeting with World
Bank Regional Director for Sustainable Development in Europe and
Central Asia Sameh Naguib Wahba and Regional Director for the South
Caucasus Rolande Pryce, Trend reports via official COP29 page on X.
The discussions covered both current and upcoming World Bank
initiatives in Azerbaijan, focusing especially on the water and
agricultural sectors, as well as preparations for COP29.
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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