2024-07-16 04:59:18
In connection with COP29, intensive work is being carried out in Baku.
As reported by Day.Az on Monday, Deputy Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan Umayra Tagiyeva said this at a briefing dedicated to the competition “International Initiatives Related to COP29”.
U.Tagieva noted that the COP29 organizing committee, along with government agencies, includes representatives of civil society, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and academic circles.
According to her, in particular, in order to take into account the ideas of NGOs, as well as to create conditions for their contribution to the COP29 process, the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources, together with the Agency for State Support of Non-Governmental Organizations of Azerbaijan, decided to hold a grant competition “International Initiatives Related to COP29”.
Let us recall that in November this year, Azerbaijan will host the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29). The decision to do so was made at the COP28 plenary session held in Dubai on December 11 last year. Over the course of two weeks, Baku, becoming the center of the world, will host 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 stands for Conference of Parties, which is the highest legislative body overseeing the implementation of the Framework Convention on Climate Change.
The convention has 198 parties. 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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