2024-06-16 06:56:28
On June 12, 2024, a gathering entitled “Street from Dubai to Baku – Pre-COP29” was organized in Ashgabat, with the participation of the Ministry of International Affairs of Turkmenistan, the Workplace of the UN Resident Coordinator in Turkmenistan, the embassies of Azerbaijan and the United Arab Emirates in Turkmenistan.
As Day.Az reviews on Wednesday, the Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan in Turkmenistan reported this.
In accordance with the report, talking on the occasion, the audio system exchanged views on the introduction of improvements for the additional actions of the twenty eighth session of the Convention of the Events to the UN Framework Conference on Local weather Change (COP28) and preparations for the COP29 summit, which shall be held in Azerbaijan in November 2024. The transition to scrub power, various power sources and lowering methane emissions have been additionally mentioned.
The assembly, which was held underneath the slogan “Our land. Our future. We’re #GenerationRestoration”, famous the essential contributions of representatives of the Sustainable Improvement Objectives (SDGs), college students, volunteers and environmental activists on the local weather change convention and talked about their energetic participation within the International Local weather Youth Convention (LCOY2023) at COP28 in Dubai in 2023.
The Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Turkmenistan Gismat Gezalov made a speech through which he introduced that 2024 had been declared in Azerbaijan because the “Yr of Solidarity for a Inexperienced World”, and in addition drew consideration to the significance of initiatives carried out by Azerbaijan associated to local weather change and the work being carried out in route of “inexperienced” power within the nation.
The Ambassador additionally spoke concerning the international significance of the COP29 Local weather Convention, which shall be held in Azerbaijan, and famous that volunteers will play an essential position in its group.
On this regard, he mentioned that to prepare the participation of volunteers in COP29, the portal volunteers.cop29.az was launched, on which about 16,000 candidates have already registered. Round 3,000 native and worldwide volunteers are anticipated to be concerned within the course of.
The Ambassador additionally emphasised the significance of the Troika COP Chairmanship, which incorporates Azerbaijan, the UAE and Brazil, and famous the significance of cooperation between the international locations chairing the present and future Troika COP classes to boost sustainability.
Gismat Gezalov mentioned that Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan are confidently shifting ahead in resolving important points associated to various power and local weather change.
“It’s gratifying that, even if each international locations have wealthy oil and pure gasoline reserves, they’re contributing to initiatives aimed toward combating local weather change, complying with commitments to scale back methane emissions. We’re satisfied that brotherly Turkmenistan “will even make a worthwhile contribution to the COP29 convention, which shall be held in November 2024 in Baku,” he added.
The Ambassador additionally drew consideration to the damaging influence of mines and emphasised the presence of a mine menace on the territory of Azerbaijan and its critical environmental and humanitarian penalties.
“Landmines and unexploded munitions proceed to be a major problem, posing a menace and inflicting injury to the surroundings, cultural heritage, in addition to resulting in the demise of civilians, and, in the end, impeding the achievement of the Sustainable Improvement Objectives,” Gezalov concluded.
Movies and images associated to COP29 have been additionally proven on the assembly.
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