BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 19. We'll fail to remove adverse climate change effects without finance, Deputy Head of the Foreign Policy Department of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Head of the Secretariat of the COP29 Organizing Committee Habib Mikayilli said, Trend reports.
He made the remark during the panel discussion "Balancing, Reducing, Adaptation and Resilience" within the 29th High-Level Meeting themed "Pathway to COP29: Sustainable and Resilient Future" in Baku today.
“Over the six months, our COP29 team visited world capitals, consulted with countries in various negotiating groups to hear their views, understand their priorities, take positions, and this was done quite successfully,” the official added.
The primary objective of convening this top-tier gathering (the 29th High-Level Meeting) is to make sure that all stakeholders are on the same page and pulling in the same direction for the success of COP29 in Azerbaijan's Baku.
Preparations for COP29 in Baku involve tackling existing global challenges and opportunities in climate action from all angles.
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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