BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, August 9. Kyrgyzstan is working to establish the Expert Dialogue on Mountains and Climate as an annual event at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Zhaparov said during the 6th Consultative Meeting of Central Asian Heads of State in Astana, Kazakhstan, Trend reports via the Kyrgyz president's press office.
"As a result of a proposal by Kyrgyzstan, a passage was included in one of the final texts of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai last year, which invited the Global Dialogue on Mountains and Climate Change. This dialogue was successfully held on June 5, 2024, in Bonn. Currently, efforts are underway to institutionalize this dialogue as an annual event at the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference in Baku this November, with a call for regional support for the initiative," said the president.
Environmental protection projects, President Zhaparov said, might ease the financial strain on weaker governments.
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 nations that are parties to the Convention. Unless the parties agree otherwise, the COP is held annually. The first COP started in March 1995 in Germany's Berlin, with its secretariat in Bonn.
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