Azerbaijan, US mull climate cooperation ahead of COP29 PHOTO

Mukhtar Babayev, COP29 President-Designate and Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan, has met with John Podesta, the Senior Advisor to the US President for International Climate Policy.

A post by COP29 on social media platform X says that the two officials discussed the significance of collaboration and global action in addressing climate change, Caliber.Az reports.

In a bilateral meeting, COP29 President Designate and @JohnPodesta, US Senior Advisor to the President for International Climate Policy, discussed the importance of collaboration and global action to tackle #climatechange in the lead up to #COP29 in Baku. #COP29… pic.twitter.com/Ly0vS5MYCe

— COP29 Azerbaijan (@COP29_AZ) October 26, 2024

“In a bilateral meeting, COP29 President-Designate and John Podesta, US Senior Advisor to the President for International Climate Policy, discussed the importance of collaboration and global action to tackle climate change in the lead up to COP29 in Baku,” the post notes.

The 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) will take place in Azerbaijan this November. This decision was made during the COP28 plenary session in Dubai on December 11, 2023. Baku is expected to welcome approximately 70,000 to 80,000 international attendees over the two-week event.

The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), signed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992, aims to prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system. The COP, or “Conference of the Parties,” is the highest decision-making body responsible for overseeing the implementation of the UNFCCC, which has 198 member states. Unless otherwise decided, the COP convenes annually; the first COP was held in Berlin in March 1995, with its secretariat based in Bonn.

By Vafa Guliyeva