BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 14. Surangel Samuel Whipps, President of the Republic of Palau, arrived in Azerbaijan on Thursday to attend to attend the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP29) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Trend reports.
At Heydar Aliyev International Airport, the President of Palau was welcomed by Nadir Zeynalov, Azerbaijan’s Deputy Minister of Health, along with other officials.
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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