BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 30. The international conference within the Climate Action Week (BCAW 2024) to Combat Climate Change framework has started in Baku, TurkicWorld reports.
The information states that Baku will host Action Week for the first time from September 30 to October 4, 2024.
The event will form the basis of the climate agenda ahead of COP29 in Baku in November.
The Baku Climate Action Week (BCAW 2024) will bring together key stakeholders from a range of fields such as politics, finance, trade, investment, science, arts, culture, civil society, and media.
The main themes of the event are "energy transition," "cities and urbanized environments," "water security," "food and agriculture," "SMEs," and "green skills."
The first half of the week (from September 30 through October 2) will focus on climate solutions involving government agencies, academia, and the private sector. The second half (October 3-4) will focus on science, education, arts, culture, and other sectors.
The city will host numerous events as part of Baku Climate Action Week (BCAW 2024).
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 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. COP takes place annually, unless the parties decide otherwise. The first COP event was held in March 1995 in Germany's Berlin with its secretariat in Bonn.
