COP29 agreement - key to combating climate change UK Foreign Secretary says

UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy has written that the agreement at COP29 marks a significant step in the fight against climate change.

“Boosting clean energy growth at home, unlocking private finance to tackle climate change, and working with international partners to protect nature. Britain is leading the way,” Lammy wrote on X, according to Caliber.Az.

The final plenary session of the 29th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) took place in Baku on November 23.

Mukhtar Babayev, COP29 President-Designate and Azerbaijan’s Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources, noted the intense efforts over the past two weeks.

He emphasised that no one wanted to leave Baku without achieving substantial progress on key issues and called for focused work to resolve remaining disagreements. Babayev highlighted that global attention was on COP29.

During COP29, Baku welcomed between 70,000 and 80,000 international visitors, including leaders from governments, businesses, and civil society, all collaborating to develop practical solutions to address the unprecedented global temperatures and extreme weather events impacting people around the world.

By Naila Huseynova