Azerbaijan, Germany discuss priority issues related to COP29

BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 25. Within the
framework of the 79th session of the UN General Assembly, a meeting
was held between Azerbaijani Minister of Ecology and Natural
Resources, COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev, and Special
Representative of the German Foreign Ministry for International
Climate Policy, Secretary of State Jennifer Morgan, the statement
of COP29 on X said, Trend reports.
In the course of the meeting, the sides discussed the
continuation of the search for further progressive ways to address
common priority issues at COP29 in Baku.
To note, the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to
the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) will be held
in Azerbaijan in November this year. The decision was made at the
plenary meeting of COP28 held in Dubai on December 11 last year.
Within two weeks, Baku, having become the center of the world, will
host about 70,000-80,000 foreign guests.
The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change is an agreement
signed at the Rio Earth Summit in June 1992 to prevent dangerous
human interference in the climate system. The acronym COP
(Conference of Parties) stands for Conference of Parties, which is
the highest legislative body overseeing the implementation of the
Framework Convention on Climate Change.



A total of 198 countries are parties to the convention. Unless
the parties have decided otherwise, COP is held annually. The first
COP event was held in March 1995 in Berlin, and its secretariat is
located in Bonn.