BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 25. COP29 presidency will organize workshops to address the issues of climate action transparency, said Mukhtar Babayev, Azerbaijan's Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources, COP29 President, Trend reports.
"We need to advance transparency. We have an important task of assisting the parties in delivering their first biennial transparency reports by the end of this year. These reports are crucial for tracking progress and building trust and confidence. COP29 will organize a series of workshops starting in May to support the parties," he said.
Babayev pointed out that, if the parties are assisted in delivering nationally determined contributions, national adaptation plans, and biennial transparency reports, this could become a strong signal of ambition to act.
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.