Azerbaijan launches zero-emission cargo transport initiative

Azerbaijan has officially signed a Declaration on Zero-Emission Cargo Transport.

The signing ceremony was held during Zero Emissions Shipping, Freight Logistics and Transport Roundtable as part of Baku Climate Action Week, Caliber.Az reports via local media. 

The declaration was endorsed by participating companies, all of which expressed their commitment to achieving zero emissions in their operations.

As Azerbaijan prepares to host COP29 in November, Baku is hosting the inaugural Baku Climate Action Week to engage and mobilise society ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference. Held under the auspices of the COP29 High-Level Champion, Nigar Arpadarai, Baku Climate Action Week is being held from September 30 to October 4. 

Working in partnership with London Climate Action Week, now the world’s largest whole of society city-based climate action event, Baku Climate Action Week features a range of high-level international conferences alongside multistakeholder local and community events.

The 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) will be held in Azerbaijan this November. This decision was made at the COP28 plenary session in Dubai on December 11, 2023.

During two weeks, Baku will become a global hub, welcoming around 70,000 to 80,000 international guests. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an agreement signed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992, aimed at preventing dangerous human interference with the climate system. 

The abbreviation COP means "Conference of the Parties" and refers to the highest decision-making body responsible for overseeing the implementation of the UNFCCC. The Convention has 198 member states. Unless otherwise decided by the parties, the COP is held annually. The first COP event was held in Berlin in March 1995, and its secretariat is based in Bonn.

By Naila Huseynova