BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 28. The COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev visited the Sydney Institute of Marine Sciences in New South Wales, Australia, as part of the COP29 presidency team's study of climate change issues, the statement of COP29's official website said, Trend reports.
“This institute in Australia is the world's leading marine science institute where they are conducting important, cutting-edge, unique marine research on the impacts of climate change and urbanization, habitat restoration, ocean resources, and technologies, and the results of marine management approaches,” the statement emphasized.
According to the COP29 chairmanship team, the visit to this institute is very important for awareness and efforts to combat climate change.
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. 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.
A total of 198 countries are parties to the convention. Unless the parties have decided otherwise, COP is held annually. The first COP event was held in March 1995 in Berlin, and its secretariat is located in Bonn.
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