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Azerbaijani minister, head of Turkish Religious Affairs Directorate moot preps for COP29

Society Materials 6 November 2024 16:10 (UTC +04:00)
Azerbaijani minister, head of Turkish Religious Affairs Directorate moot preps for COP29
Basti Mammad
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BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 6. Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan Mukhtar Babayev and President of the Turkish Directorate of Religious Affairs Ali Erbas have held a meeting to discuss preparation for the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29), Trend reports via the Azerbaijani Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources.

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 first COP event was held in March 1995 in Germany's Berlin with its secretariat in Bonn.

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