BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 6. Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov, addressing the 11th meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Turkic States, spoke about preparations for COP29, the nation's Foreign Ministry wrote on its X page, Trend reports.
In addition, Bayramov discussed the potential for OTS collaboration in the areas of culture, digital technology, energy security, transportation and communications, the economy, trade, and trade and transport.
In just less than a week’s time, the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) will be kicking off in Azerbaijan, the decision of which was made at the plenary meeting of COP28 held in Dubai in December last year.
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 abbreviation COP (Conference of Parties) means “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 inaugural COP event took place in March 1995 in the bustling city of Berlin, Germany, with its secretariat nestled in Bonn.
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