BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 18. Final touches are being applied in the COP29 Blue Zone, Director of Venue Management Department for COP29 Turan Suleymanov said at a media tour of the Baku Olympic Stadium, Trend reports.
"Blue Zone has numerous sections. 26 meeting rooms and 9 parallel event rooms are available. Meeting attendees will have the essential technical equipment. A pavilion zone with 155 country pavilions will be notable. Guest comfort will be ensured by on-site services," he 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.
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 inaugural COP event took place in March 1995 in the bustling city of Berlin, Germany, with its secretariat setting up shop in Bonn.
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