Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan, President-designate of COP29 Mukhtar Babaev met with the UN Secretary General’s Special Adviser on Climate Issues, Assistant Secretary General Selvin Hart.
As Day.Az reports, this is stated on the page COP29 on the social network X.
It is noted that during the meeting joint actions in the fight against climate change and the upcoming efforts of COP29 to increase the ambitions of governments in agreeing on climate plans were discussed.
Let us recall that 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.
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.
It should be noted that the “COP29 Uniform Distribution and Accreditation Center” was recently opened.