Azerbaijan to host ministerial meeting on "Green Public Transport" PHOTO 

Azerbaijan’s Minister of Digital Development and Transport Rashad Nabiyev has written that a ministerial meeting focusing on "Green Public Transport" is set to be held as part of COP29, which will be held in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku this November.

 “During a visit to China we met with Secretary-General of the International Transport Forum (ITF) Young Tae Kim and discussed Azerbaijan's upcoming presidency of the ITF for 2025-2026, priorities for cooperation, and the details of the forthcoming ministerial meeting at COP29," Caliber.Az reports, citing the minister's message on X.

Ölkəmizdə COP29 çərçivəsində keçiriləcək “Yaşıl ictimai nəqliyyat” mövzusunda nazirlər görüşü ilə əlaqədar müvafiq işlərin görülməsinə dair fikir mübadiləsi apardıq. pic.twitter.com/iPTX6IDFit

— Rashad Nabiyev (@RashadNNabiyev) September 24, 2024

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