BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 23. Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan will launch a new green energy project at COP29, Kazakh Ambassador to Azerbaijan Alim Bayel said at an event dedicated to the Day of Kazakhstan in Baku, Trend reports.
“At COP29, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan will officially launch a new project aimed at transporting green energy from Central Asia to Europe through Azerbaijan,” the ambassador pointed out.
Bayel added that Kazakhstan fully supports Azerbaijan in hosting COP29 and will take an active part in it.
This November, Azerbaijan will host COP29. This decision was made at the COP28 plenary meeting held in Dubai on December 11 last year. Baku will become the center of the world and will receive about 70–80,000 foreign guests.
The United Nations 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 with the climate system. COP—the Conference of the Parties—is the highest legislative body overseeing the implementation of the Framework Convention on Climate Change. There are 198 countries that are parties to the Convention. Unless the parties agree otherwise, the COP is held annually. The first COP event took place in March 1995 in Germany's Berlin with its secretariat in Bonn.
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