BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 26. Efforts across various levels have ramped up ahead of COP29, TurkicWorld reports via COP29's official web portal.
The COP29 Presidency team is holding retreats this week to discuss the hottest issues on the climate agenda.
Seminars held in Türkiye and Malawi discussed the preparation of new Biennial Transparency Reports (BTR) by the parties to the UN Climate Convention.
These reports are due to be submitted ahead of the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) in November.
Moreover, an off-site meeting of negotiating groups focusing on climate finance, a key issue for COP29, is taking place in Shamakhi on July 26-27.
Expert meetings to align the agenda for COP29 will continue until September.
The COP presidency program schedules high-level meetings in September, including the Fifth Global Conference on Synergies Between the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil, chairing G20 and COP30), with participation from the COP29 and COP28 presidents and other officials at the beginning of the month.
The UN General Assembly in New York will feature a high-level meeting of the 'Troika' of COP presidencies - the UAE (COP28), Azerbaijan (COP29), and Brazil (COP30) at the end of September.
Later, the ministers of the 'Troika' countries will participate in the Joint Ministerial Conference on Climate and Finance of the G20 countries.
These meetings precede COP29-related events at the end of October and beginning of November.
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 center 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. The 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, with its secretariat in Bonn.