BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 11. The opening ceremony of the COP29 conference was held today at Baku Olympic Stadium, Trend reports.
In the course of the ceremony, the chairmanship was handed over to Azerbaijan and Mukhtar Babayev was elected COP29 President.
Representatives, leaders, and climate experts from around the world convened to mark the start of one of the biggest climate events of the year.
The decision to hold COP29 in Azerbaijan was made at the COP28 plenary session held in Dubai on December 11 last year.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change,
signed in June 1992 at the Rio Earth Summit, aims to prevent
dangerous human interference in the climate system. The Conference
of Parties (COP) is the highest governing body responsible for
overseeing the implementation of the convention.
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