Gulf Cooperation Council representative describes details of importance of COP29

BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 26. The Gulf
Cooperation Council's Support and Monitoring Manager Talal Al
Shaikh believes that the upcoming COP29 in Baku will give the
world's countries a chance to discuss and make fundamental
decisions on decarbonization, Trend reports.
He made this statement in Baku during a panel discussion on
“Cooperation on Renewable Energy Sources (RES), Clean Energy,
Electricity, and Water Projects” within the framework of the second
Azerbaijan-Persian Gulf Economic Forum.
“The Gulf countries have a great experience on the issues of
reducing greenhouse gas emissions, construction of renewable energy
sources (RES), integration of electricity from RES into the general
power grid of a country, and “green” hydrogen. All of the above
issues are on the COP29 agenda, and this climate summit will be a
chance to achieve important world results in this,” Al-Shaikh
said.
He added that most of the Gulf countries are oil and
gas-producing countries.
“However, our mission is to develop technologies to minimize
harm to the environment and share our accumulated experience,
including with Azerbaijan,” he said.
Baku is hosting the second Azerbaijan-Persian Gulf Economic
Forum (the first one was held in 2017).



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.