BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 10. The EU has provided extensive funding for climate science, the EU Commissioner for Climate Action Wopke Hoekstra said at the pre-conference meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Pre-COP29), Trend reports.
“I want to remind you that using science as the basis from which to start changing the current climate situation is extremely important. That's why we have funded several projects that involve modelers and experts who will tell us what we need to do in each case,” he said.
He also noted that it is extremely important for the world what action will be taken on this issue.
“We must not only continue to move on this ambitious path within the European Union but also work very closely both here and around the world to make sure that we do everything possible,” Wopke Hoekstra noted.
The preliminary meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), i.e., Pre-COP29, which precedes the climate summit itself, started its work in Baku.
Pre-COP29 in Baku takes place under the motto “Raising Ambition and Ensuring Action”.
The 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) will be held this November in Azerbaijan. The decision was made at the plenary meeting of COP28 held in Dubai on December 11 last year. Within two weeks Baku will become the center of the world and will host about 70-80,000 foreign guests.
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 Berlin, and its secretariat is located in Bonn.