(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 10. The preliminary
meeting of the conference of the Parties to the United Nations
Framework convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), known as
Pre-COP29, has commenced in Baku, Trend reports.
Pre-COP is typically held a month before the main COP conference
and aims to align the participants of the Paris Agreement on key
issues related to climate change.
This year, Pre-COP29 in Baku carries the theme, "Raising
Ambitions and Ensuring Action."
The opening ceremony will feature speeches from the COP29
President Designate, Azerbaijan's Minister of Ecology and Natural
Resources Mukhtar Babayev, and the President of COP28, UAE Special
Envoy for Climate Change and Minister of Industry and Advanced
Technologies Sultan A. Al Jaber.
The expected speakers also include UN Deputy Secretary-General
Amina Mohammed, Executive Secretary of UNFCCC Simon Stiell, and
other officials.
The "Path to COP29" plenary discussion will feature speakers who
will share their perspectives on a successful balanced package
outcome at COP29 and identify two to three priorities.
Parallel events will cover three themes: "New Collective
Quantified Goal" (NCQG), "Adaptation, Loss and Damage," and
"Mitigation of Climate Change."
Additionally, on October 10, the "Troika" of the COP presidency
(UAE, Azerbaijan, and Brazil) will present the roadmap for the "1.5
Mission: Strengthening International Cooperation."
The event also schedules discussions on "Stimulating Global
Support for Universal Transparency in Climate Action."
The agenda includes the Climate and Development Ministerial
Conference 2024, organized by the UK, Vanuatu, and Azerbaijan, on
October 11.
The participants will also discuss the topic, "Developing Human
Capacity for a Climate-Resilient Future."
The presidencies of COP28 and COP29, along with the
International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), will brief the
Pre-COP29 participants on consensus results in the energy
sector.
The event also schedules joint consultations on climate and
peace, and will be concluded with a logistics briefing by the
operational team 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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