BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 17. OPEC Secretariat will host a pavilion at COP29 in Baku, said Haitham Al Ghais, OPEC Secretary General, Trend reports.
As he welcomed the participants of the 26th Coordination Meeting on Climate Change in Vienna, Al Ghais highlighted the focus on the new collective quantified goal on climate finance and ISO standards.
"The OPEC Secretariat will continue to monitor climate-related debates and processes and remain in close communication with OPEC and DoC delegations on emerging developments. Moreover, the OPEC Secretariat will host a pavilion at COP29 to present its viewpoints on emission reductions, energy security, and the role of oil for sustainable energy access for all," he said.
OPEC Secretary General further commended the incoming COP29 Presidency, which was present at the meeting, for its collaborative and inclusive approach.
This November, Azerbaijan will host COP29. This decision was made at the COP28 plenary meeting held in Dubai on December 11 last year. Baku will become the center of the world and will receive about 70–80,000 foreign guests.
The United Nations 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 with the climate system. COP—the Conference of the Parties—is the highest legislative body overseeing the implementation of the Framework Convention on Climate Change. There are 198 countries that are parties to the Convention. Unless the parties agree otherwise, the COP is held annually. The first COP event took place in March 1995 in Germany's Berlin with its secretariat in Bonn.