BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 25. Orientation and informational signage will be erected at the airport and adjacent to the Koroghlu metro station in Baku in relation to COP29, Ilkin Javadov, head of visitor services at the COP29 Azerbaijan Operational Company, told reporters, Trend reports.
He mentioned that special buses will be hitting the road on select COP29-related routes and noted that temporary signage will be set up to guide visitors to the bus stops, along with directions from these spots to nearby hotels.
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. 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.
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