Baku, TurkicWorld:
The issues of efficiency and decarbonization in the heat supply sector and the promotion of renewable energy sources were discussed at the Azerbaijan Energy Regulatory Agency (AERA) with a delegation of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), TurkicWorld reports via AERA.
“The meeting was attended by AERA deputy chairman Rovshan Ismayilov, ADB senior energy specialist Nana Gurgenidze, ADB heat supply specialist Sakari Oksanen, and other experts. Implementation of pilot projects with ADB assistance and tariff regulation in the power sector were discussed,” the information notes.
The parties noted the importance of increasing efficiency and decarbonization in the heat supply sector and the development of renewables.
The sides also discussed the agenda of the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29), to be held in Baku in November.
Meanwhile, 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.