BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 13. Azerbaijan will launch a new portal focused on "green" growth on November 15, Azerbaijan's Minister of Economy Mikayil Jabbarov said at a panel discussion at the COP29 World Leaders’ Climate Summit on the topic “The Power of Collaboration: Unifying Forces for Net-Zero,” Trend reports.
"In two days, the ‘green growth’ portal will be launched, serving as a central tool for driving progress. The portal will offer a user-friendly mechanism that clearly identifies obstacles as well as opportunities for the development of green production and trade," Jabbarov said.
To note, the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) started in Baku on November 11. 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 in the climate system.
The acronym COP (Conference of Parties) stands for “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 the parties decide otherwise, the COP is held annually. The first COP event took place in March 1995 in Berlin, and its secretariat is located in Bonn.
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