BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 16. COP29 reflects Azerbaijan's commitment to advancing climate solutions, the President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Tulia Ackson said at a parliamentary meeting within COP29 organized jointly by the IPU and Azerbaijani Parliament, Trend reports.
Sevil Mikayilova, the Vice President of the IPU from Azerbaijan and a member of the Azerbaijani parliament, is taking part in the event.
“We, Members of Parliament, express our sincere gratitude to the Baku city for hosting COP29, a platform that reflects Azerbaijan's commitment to promote climate solutions and set high standards for global cooperation on climate action. We also express our gratitude to the Parliament of the Republic of Azerbaijan," she said.
Ackson noted that the decisions taken at COP29 will determine the lives of future generations.
“Gathered here at COP29, we must recognize that some 733 million people, that is one in eleven of the world's inhabitants, are currently suffering from hunger, a crisis exacerbated by the inexorable effects of climate change. We stand at a threshold where ambition must turn into action and words into real change,” the IPU President emphasized.
To note, the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29), which will run until November 22, opened at the Baku Olympic Stadium on November 11. It is the largest event organized by Azerbaijan to date, and the first time in the region that it is being held in Azerbaijan.
Within COP29, the highest level event - the summit of world leaders on climate action – was held on November 12–13.
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.
In addition to being a top priority that creates the conditions for action, creating climate finance will also help fulfill the 1.5°C pledge by bringing everyone together.
The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change is an agreement signed at the Rio Earth Summit in June 1992 to prevent dangerous human interference in the climate system. The acronym COP (Conference of Parties) stands for “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 first COP event was held in March 1995 in Berlin, and its secretariat is located in Bonn.
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