BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 19. Italy will be present at COP29 in Baku with a high-level delegation, Italian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Luca Di Gianfrancesco told Trend.
"Italy will certainly participate as a protagonist at the upcoming COP 29. Italy will certainly be present throughout the session with a high-level delegation. It is a very important event to advance the agenda on issues of contrast," he said.
The ambassador congratulated Azerbaijan for obtaining recognition for hosting COP 29.
"We are confident it will be a success," he said.
To note, Luca Di Gianfrancesco was appointed ambassador to Baku on May 20. This post was previously held by Claudio Taffuri.
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. The 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.