BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 1. From November 11-22, 2024, senior Biden-Harris Administration officials from more than 20 U.S. Departments, Agencies, and organizations will travel to Baku, Azerbaijan to highlight U.S. leadership on tackling the climate crisis and to work towards strong negotiated outcomes at the 2024 UN Climate Change Conference (COP 29), Trend reports via the U.S. State Department.
The U.S. delegation will be led by Senior Advisor to the President for International Climate Policy John Podesta.
Other senior officials in the U.S. delegation include:
Thomas Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture
Jennifer M. Granholm, Secretary of Energy
Ali Zaidi, Assistant to the President and White House National Climate Advisor
Brenda Mallory, Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality
David Turk, Deputy Secretary of Energy
Laura Daniel-Davis, Acting Deputy Secretary of the Interior
Jane Nishida, Acting Deputy Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
Rick Spinrad, Ph.D, Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere & Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Bonnie Jenkins, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security
In addition to those listed above, the U.S. delegation will include a wide range of other U.S. government officials working on how climate change relates to armed conflict, finance, food security, gender, global health, trade and investment, youth issues, and more.
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 first COP event was held in March 1995 in Berlin, and its secretariat is located in Bonn.
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