BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 2. Since October 28 of this year, the COP29 Azerbaijan Operating Company and UNFCCC have organized information tours for the advance working groups of delegations that will visit Azerbaijan, as well as for the diplomatic missions and international organizations accredited in Azerbaijan, the company posted on its social media page, Trend reports.
The purpose of these visits is to familiarize them with the preparation processes for the conference.
“Participants closely familiarized themselves with the relevant preparations at the COP29 venue and shared their positive impressions of the large-scale efforts successfully organized in a short period,” the publication reads.
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 first COP event was held in March 1995 in Berlin, and its secretariat is located in Bonn.