2024-03-29 02:42:44
The United States strongly supports Azerbaijan’s chairmanship of COP29.
As Day.Az reports on Thursday with reference to Trend, this was stated by US Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources Geoffrey Pyatt.
“I had very good discussions in Houston with the Deputy Secretary of Energy. I also had excellent discussions a few weeks ago when the Secretary of Energy himself was here in Washington. I emphasized the strong US support for Azerbaijan’s chairmanship of COP29 <...> “I am confident that there is a great degree of consistency between the goals set by President Ilham Aliyev and the goals that the United States intends to achieve at the next COP and then in Brazil in 2025,” he said.
Payette also emphasized US support for the Troika mechanism that the UAE, Azerbaijan and Brazil have developed to continue the COP28 agenda.
“I’m focused on issues related to greening our energy system, working to ensure that the fossil energy the world is going to continue to use is delivered in the least climate-damaging way possible, which means continuing our efforts to combat methane emissions – we are very, very We support President Ilham Aliyev’s statement about Azerbaijan’s commitment to the Global Methane Commitment, and we are now working with companies such as bp, Chevron and ExxonMobile that are active in the Caspian region to explore opportunities to extract more methane and associated gases that come from countries that have recently signed the Global Methane Commitment in the region, such as Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan,” he added.
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 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) 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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