BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 13. COP29 chief negotiator Yalchin Rafiyev took part in the 31st meeting of the OSCE Economic and Environmental Forum taking place in Prague on September 12-13, the report of COP29 on the website said, Trend reports.
“Together with OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities Coordinator Bakyt Yusupov, discussions on Azerbaijan's vision and priorities at COP29 were held at the forum in Prague. The OSCE's contribution to the fight against climate change was also discussed,” the report says.
On September 12, COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev held a series of working meetings in Belgrade, at which, according to the COP29 website, strengthening of bilateral cooperation in addressing pressing climate issues was discussed, as well as commitment to promoting sustainable solutions in the run-up to COP29.
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 Germany's Berlin with its secretariat in Bonn.