BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 2. The UN Roadmap for reducing methane emissions will be presented in Baku during COP29 in November, the European Commission representative Mindaugas Laurinavicius said at the seminar “Turning promises on methane into actions” in Baku today, Trend reports.
According to him, the European Commission is working closely with the COP29 Presidency team to organize a separate panel on methane during the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and adopt a Declaration on methane.
“This gas is trapped in the atmosphere longer than carbon dioxide, and it is nearly 30 times more destructive than carbon dioxide. Therefore, the countries of the world need to mobilize efforts to level this problem,” the EC representative added.
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.
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