COP29 President meets with UN Task Force to mull climate change agenda

COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev recently held a meeting with the UN Task Force to address climate change issues.

According to Caliber.Az, the announcement was made on COP29's official social media page on X.

The post states, "COP29 leadership met with the UN Task Force, representatives of the UN office in Azerbaijan, UNFCCC, UNDP, and UNEP to discuss coordinated efforts for advancing global climate action."

COP29 Presidency met with the UN Task Force, including representatives from the UN Azerbaijan Office, @UNFCCC, @UNDP, and @UNEP, to discuss coordinated efforts for advancing global climate action. #ClimateAction #COP29 pic.twitter.com/8fBi4v91pC

— COP29 AZ (@COP29_AZ) June 7, 2024

This November, Azerbaijan will host COP29. This decision was made at the COP28 plenary meeting held in Dubai on December 11 last year. Baku will become the centre of the world and will receive about 70–80,000 foreign guests.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is an agreement signed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992 to prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system. COP - the Conference of the Parties - is the highest legislative body overseeing the implementation of the Framework Convention on Climate Change. There are 198 countries that are parties to the Convention. Unless the parties agree otherwise, the COP is held annually. The first COP event took place in March 1995 in Germany's Berlin, and its secretariat is located in Bonn.