2024-04-28 12:22:19
COP29 is an opportunity for Azerbaijan to announce itself to the world as a country taking part in solving global environmental problems.
As Day.Az reports, Michael Ritchie, editor of the London publishing house Energy Intelligence, told Trend about this on Tuesday.
“At COP29 in November, all eyes will be on Azerbaijan. The event will be attended by tens of thousands of journalists, participants and delegates. There will also be questions about why an oil and gas producer is taking part in climate talks. However, COP29 follows immediately after this conference in the United Arab Emirates, which is also a major oil and gas producer, the UK, where I come from, is also an oil and gas producer, and also hosted this conference, COP29, is an opportunity for Azerbaijan to announce itself to the world as a host country. participation in solving global environmental problems,” Ritchie said.
Hosting COP29 is critical to achieving financial goals and securing additional funds, possibly from developed countries, to finance the fight against climate change, he said. It will also lay the groundwork for the next COP30 in Brazil.
It should be noted that the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) will be held in Azerbaijan this November. This decision was made at the COP28 plenary meeting held in Dubai on December 11 last year. Within two weeks, Baku, having become the center of the world, will receive about 70-80 thousand 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. The abbreviation COP (Conference of Parties) stands for Conference of the Parties, which is the highest legislative body overseeing the implementation of the Framework Convention on Climate Change.
There are 198 countries that are parties to the convention. Unless the parties agree 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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