BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 23. COP29 will demonstrate Azerbaijan's potential in such areas as ecotourism, agro-tourism, and sustainable tourism, deputy chairperson of the State Tourism Agency of Azerbaijan Azada Huseynova said, Trend reports.
She made the remark during a press conference on the accommodation of foreign guests and the presentation of tourism opportunities during COP29.
“COP29 will recognize our nation's history, culture, material, and cultural legacy. The conference will also highlight Azerbaijan's potential in ecotourism, agrotourism, and sustainable tourism,” she said.
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.