BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 17. The COP29 President-Designate and Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan, Mukhtar Babayev held a productive meeting with World Bank Regional Director for Sustainable Development in Europe and Central Asia Sameh Naguib Wahba and Regional Director for the South Caucasus Rolande Pryce, TurkicWorld reports via official COP29 page on X.
The discussions covered both current and upcoming World Bank initiatives in Azerbaijan, focusing especially on the water and agricultural sectors, as well as preparations for COP29.
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. 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.
