BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 24. Children must be at the heart of the climate process, and the topic was discussed at the UNICEF headquarters in New York as part of the "High-Level Week" during the 79th session of the UN General Assembly, TurkicWorld reports via a social media publication from the COP29 Presidency.
"Azerbaijan's Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources, COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev, and COP29 Youth Climate Champion Leyla Hasanova participated in a roundtable in New York organized by UNICEF. Babayev noted that children are among those most impacted by the climate crisis," the publication said.
Babayev emphasized at the meeting that funding climate initiatives for children and creating resilient social infrastructure to protect against the impacts of climate change is a priority for Azerbaijan within the framework of COP29.
UNICEF Deputy Director Kitty van der Heijden mentioned that for the first time in the 30-year history of the organization, the impact of climate change on children is being addressed as part of a critical process and has thus been included in the COP29 agenda.
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.
