BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 31. The UN is providing coordinated support to the COP29 Presidency in three parallel tracks, UN Resident Coordinator in Azerbaijan Vladanka Andreeva told Trend.
“First UNFCCC support COP29 Presidency on all organizational aspects of the Climate Conference that will take place in November in Baku. Secondly, we have activated a UN Global Task Force that I co-chair together with Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Climate Action and Just Transition Selwin Charles Hart. Within this UN Global Task Force, we have 25 UN agencies to support the COP29 Presidency with their initiatives. We are going to have a follow-up discussion in Bonn next week to ensure that those initiatives are being finalized,” she said.
Andreeva noted that the third track is the UN country team that she leads in Azerbaijan.
“We have an engagement strategy. We are already organizing the 29 climate conversations leading to COP29. We also discuss how every sector of the society can support climate action. Finally, as a UN country team, we would really like to support the climate ambition of Azerbaijan. We see this as building the momentum of COP29 to continue to achieve greener, sustainable development in Azerbaijan,” she concluded.
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.