BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 26. Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan, COP29 President-designate Mukhtar Babayev has met with Senior Advisor to the US President for International Climate Policy John Podesta, Trend reports via COP29's page on X.
During the meeting, the significance of collaboration and international initiatives leading up to COP29 to tackle climate change was emphasized.
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.
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 otherwise decided by the parties, 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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