(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 13. Azerbaijan's
Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov has delivered a speech at a
high-level dialogue titled "Advancing the Mountain Agenda, Common
Trends, and Climate Change" within the COP29 Leaders' Summit on
Climate Action, a source in the country's Foreign Ministry told
Trend .
The event brought together the President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr
Zhaparov, the President of Mongolia Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh, the
President of Nepal RAM Chandra Paudel, and other high-ranking
officials.
Bayramov emphasized the importance of mountain ecosystems for
biodiversity, highlighting that disasters such as glacial melting,
resulting floods, and landslides in mountainous regions call for
systematic measures.
He underscored the significance of networks like the "Mountain
Partnership," a voluntary UN alliance, for raising awareness of
these issues and mobilizing resources.
Bayramov also stressed the need for more efforts to protect
mountain dwelling communities and ecosystems and to strengthen
cooperation in finding solutions.
He added that Azerbaijan's COP29 chairmanship, among other
priorities, draws attention to the need for specific and targeted
climate plans for local communities affected by climate issues
related to mountain ecosystems.
To note, the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to
the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29)
started in Baku on November 11. 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 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
the parties decide otherwise, the COP is held annually. The first
COP event took place in March 1995 in Berlin, and its secretariat
is located in Bonn.
The main expectation from COP29 is to agree on a fair and
ambitious New Collective Quantitative Goal (NCQG) on climate
finance. The COP29 chairmanship has launched 14 initiatives that
include linkages between climate action and the Sustainable
Development Goals, including green energy corridors, green energy
storage, harmony for climate resilience, clean hydrogen, methane
reduction in organic waste, action on green digital technologies,
and other topics.
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