BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 19. Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan Mukhtar Babayev has met with Special Advisor on Climate Change of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Andrew Harper, the statement of Azerbaijan's Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry said, Trend reports.
“During the meeting, the sides exchanged views on preparatory activities for the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) to be held in Azerbaijan in November this year,” the statement of the ministry reads.
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.