Azerbaijan Turns Into Venue For Global Climate Discussions - Kyrgyzstan's Minister
Date
11/12/2024 7:14:42 PM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 12. Azerbaijan is
accepting participants from all over the world at the COP29
conference to discuss key climate change issues, Minister of
Natural Resources, Environment and Technical Supervision of
Kyrgyzstan Meder Mashiev told reporters, Trend reports.
“We arrived at COP29 in Baku with an impressive delegation and
opened our first national pavilion. I am pleased to be personally
present at such a significant event. The organization of the event
is at the highest level, and it is pleasant that such an important
event is held on the brotherly Azerbaijani land. We are very
pleased that Azerbaijan is hosting participants from all over the
world to discuss key climate change issues at the COP29
conference,” the minister said.
Mashiev pointed out that the issues tied to climate change are
snowballing year after year.
“Today it is clear to everyone that climate change is not an
abstract threat but a real problem. We need to actively combat the
consequences of these changes, and we are glad that this topic is
being discussed here in Azerbaijan,” he added.
The 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN
Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) kicked off in Baku
on November 11.
The UN 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 in the climate system. The
acronym COP (Conference of Parties) stands for“Conference of
Parties” and 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
otherwise decided by the parties, 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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