BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 7. Azerbaijan and Russia discussed cooperation in tackling climate change, Trend reports via the official COP29 page on X.
The Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan, President of COP29 Mukhtar Babayev met Russia's Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Alexander Kozlov and Minister of Economic Development Maksim Reshetnikov.
The purpose of the meeting was to promote bilateral and regional cooperation in the areas of environmental protection and climate change.
This November, Azerbaijan will host COP29. This decision was made at the COP28 plenary meeting held in Dubai on December 11 last year. Hence, Baku will become the world's center, receiving 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, and its secretariat is located in Bonn.
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