(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 14. The climate
scanner will allow the identification of potential topics of
environmental audit, the Chairman of the Chamber of Accounts of
Azerbaijan Vugar Gulmammadov said at the event titled“Where are
governments with their climate action? – First Results of
ClimateScanner assessment” held as part of COP29 in Baku, Trend
reports.
He noted that one of the most important steps in the direction
of contributing to climate change activities is the establishment
of the“Climate Scanner” initiative by the federal Court of
Accounts of Brazil, which currently chairs INTOSAI, the working
group on the environmental audit of INTOSAI, together with experts
and international organizations (UN Department of Economic and
Social Affairs (UNDESA), the World Bank, the United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP), and others).
According to him, the Climate Scanner tool is used by 141
countries that joined the initiative to assess the state of
implementation of mitigation work by governmental bodies, including
commitments made at the national and international levels.
“As of the current date, a large number of assessment results,
conducted, including by the Chamber of Accounts, are included in
the relevant system for review,” Gulmammadov said.
He expressed confidence that the components and indicators of
the Climate Scanner will contribute to the identification of
potential audit topics, acting as important criteria for future
audits in this area.
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.
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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