There is a need to invest in existing resources to ensure food and water security.
As Day.Az reports with reference to Trend, this was said by the Minister of Industry and Advanced Technologies of the UAE and the General Director of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) Sultan bin Ahmed al-Jaber at the pre-meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (<a href="https://time.news/a-gathering-was-held-in-turkmenistan-on-the-subject-street-from-dubai-to-baku-pre-cop29-2024-06-16-065628/" title="A gathering was held in Turkmenistan on the subject “Street from Dubai to Baku – Pre-COP29”
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“International cooperation is very important and, in fact, critical. And cooperation at every level is key. We need to share best practices, ensure technology transfer and encourage investment in various sectors, with special attention to the poorest people,” he said.
COP29 will have a decisive impact on the fight against climate change – Mukhtar Babaev
The minister noted that the global community needs to invest in adaptation as wisely as in mitigation. This means investing in new forms of energy and existing decarbonization technologies.
“This in turn means strengthening early warning and health systems, as well as strengthening ownership, transparency and accountability in all our efforts. Fundamentally, this means building new resilience to climate change while creating new pathways for low-carbon growth,” he said. .
He said the upcoming indices are not only critical to keeping the 1.5 level within reach, but also provide significant opportunities for socio-economic development, in line with scientific evidence. And by expanding and strengthening international cooperation, equity in climate progress can be achieved.
It should be noted that the preliminary meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), that is, Pre-COP29, preceding the climate summit itself, began work in Baku.
Pre-COP29 in Baku is being held under the theme “Raising Ambition and Ensuring Action”.
The 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) will be held in November this year in Azerbaijan. This decision was made at the COP28 plenary meeting held in Dubai on December 11 last year. Within two weeks, Baku will become the center of the world and 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) translated from English means “Conference of Parties”, this is the highest legislative body that controls 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.