BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 21. All told, the COP29 bus fleet will include about 160 eco-friendly vehicles, Member of the Coordination Council of the COP29 Operating Company Ayan Najaf said at a seminar on “Understanding and analyzing ESG (environmental, social, and corporate governance) reports,” Trend reports.
“To facilitate transportation operations and services for COP29 participants, more than 350 buses have been deployed. Approximately 160 of these will be electric buses, functioning in entirely eco-friendly settings,” she said.
Additionally, the transportation operations will hit the ground running with 60 Neoplan buses, while about 160 buses from Bakubus will be in the thick of it, ensuring participants are on the move.
To note, the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) will be held in Azerbaijan in November this year. The decision was made at the plenary meeting of COP28 held in Dubai on December 11 last year.
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.
A total of 198 countries are parties to the convention. Unless the parties have decided otherwise, COP is held annually. The inaugural COP event took place in March 1995 in the bustling city of Berlin, Germany, with its secretariat setting up shop in Bonn.
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