COP29 President highlights new appointments, initiatives at UNGA meeting IN NEW YORK/PHOTO

Azerbaijan's Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources, COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev spoke about the progress of Azerbaijan's presidency during the third meeting of the International Advisory Committee of COP29, organised on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.

Babayev also noted the publication of the full list of initiatives and declarations that make up the COP29 Presidency Action, Caliber.Az quotes COP29 Azerbaijan as saying on X.

During the third meeting of the COP29 International Advisory Committee at #UNGA, the COP29 President-Designate shared key updates on the #COP29Presidency’s progress since August. Highlights included the appointment of @BowenChris as the new Ministerial Pair on the NCQG, the… pic.twitter.com/3DjvBwRtqN

— COP29 Azerbaijan (@COP29_AZ) September 27, 2024

“Agenda during the third meeting of the COP29 International Advisory Committee at UNGA, the COP29 President-Designate shared key updates on the COP29 Presidency’s progress since August. Highlights included the appointment of Chris Bowen as the new Ministerial Pair on the NCQG, the launch of the Baku Global Climate Transparency Platform, the announcement of Zulfiya Suleimenova and Francesco Corvaro as High-Level Co-Pairs for Transparency, and the publication of the full list of initiatives and declarations that make up the COP29 Presidency’s Action Agenda,” the statement reads.

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 Aghakazım Guliyev