BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 11. The 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) opens today in Baku, Trend reports.
The official opening ceremony will take place on November 11 at the Baku Olympic Stadium.
Following this, a World Leaders’ Summit on Climate Action will be held on November 12-13. This major event will run through November 22.
The decision to host COP29 in Azerbaijan was made at the COP28 plenary session held in Dubai on December 11 of last year.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, signed in June 1992 at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, aims to prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system. The “COP” (Conference of the Parties) is the highest governing body responsible for overseeing the convention’s implementation.
A total of 198 countries participate in the convention. Unless otherwise agreed, COP is held annually. The first COP took place in Berlin in March 1995, with its secretariat headquartered in Bonn.