Azerbaijan Counts COP29 Preliminary Signups

10/21/2024 7:11:17 AM

(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 21. The registration process for delegations from various countries attending the COP29 conference in Azerbaijan this November is ongoing, Trend reports.

The number of participants who have completed the registration process has surpassed 32,000 people.

Registration for this international climate conference began on June 24 of this year, and it is anticipated that the number of registered participants will continue to rise in the coming weeks.

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.

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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