BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 30. Duty groups consisting of English-speaking employees have been set up to prepare for COP29, Executive Director of Azerbaijan's Medical Territorial Units Management Association (TABIB) Vugar Gurbanov said at a briefing on the organization of medical care within COP29 in Baku today, TurkicWorld reports.
"Moreover, a number of steps have been taken to promptly address requests received by the Central Emergency and Urgent Medical Care Service. All computers have been configured and equipped with new call center equipment.
A review of the data server has also been conducted. The server is equipped with new hardware to prevent technical failures that may occur in the future.
Emergency medical teams have been formed at Heydar Aliyev International Airport to provide medical services during COP29," he added.
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.
