BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 10. COP29 will play a decisive role in the fight against climate change, the Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan, COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev said, Trend reports.
He made the statement at the roundtable entitled “Troika's Roadmap to Mission 1.5: Strengthening International Cooperation,” held within the framework of Pre-COP29.
According to him, there is a necessity to increase cooperation between countries.
“The transparency framework ensures our collective responsibility. I am proud to say that we represent the Baku Transparency Platform. We have already undergone training in Africa, and Central Asia, and we will continue working in this direction.
We have to attract funding in the direction of climate change. It is difficult to succeed without it. We must build our investment plans in line with the SDGs. COP29 is a platform to strengthen global cooperation on climate change. We have a challenging path ahead of us. However, with determination and ambition, we can build a sustainable future,” he added.
The preliminary meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), i.e., PreCOP29, which precedes the climate summit itself, has started its work in Baku.
PreCOP29 in Baku is held under the motto “Raising Ambition and Ensuring Action.”
The 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) will be held this November in Azerbaijan. The decision was made at the plenary meeting of COP28 held in Dubai on December 11 last year. Within two weeks, Baku will become the center of the world and will host about 70-80,000 foreign guests.
The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change is an agreement signed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992 to prevent dangerous human interference in the climate system. The abbreviation COP (Conference of Parties) means “Conference of Parties” and 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 decide 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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