BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 25. Azerbaijan is working on submitting its 1.5-aligned Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), said Mukhtar Babayev, Azerbaijan's Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources, COP29 President, Trend reports.
"We will work across two parallel pillars that are mutually reinforcing, where action on each sends a strong signal in support of the other. This involves setting out clear plans to keep the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius within reach and ensuring that no one is left behind, while also putting in place the finances needed to deliver on these plans," Babayev said, as he addressed the 15th Petersberg Climate Dialogue.
He noted that, as the host of COP29, Azerbaijan understands the need to lead by example, as such, climate action will be placed at the heart of the country's development plan.
"COP29 will not solely focus on finance, supporting climate behavior, or any other single component. It will be about bringing all these elements together to drive the process further. And if we resolve to work on both these pillars, this year can be the moment when we make real progress," the president noted.
Azerbaijan will host the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) in November this year. The decision was made at the plenary meeting of COP28 held in Dubai on December 11 last year. Within two weeks, Baku, having become the center of the world, will host about 70,000–80,000 foreign guests.
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, which is the highest legislative body overseeing the implementation of the Framework Convention on Climate Change.
The parties to the convention are 198 countries. Unless the parties have decided otherwise, COP is held annually. The first COP event was held in March 1995 in Germany's Berlin, and its secretariat is located in Bonn.