SHUSHA, Azerbaijan, July 6. Kazakhstan will actively participate in COP29, the country's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said today during an Informal Summit of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) in Shusha city,TurkicWorld reports.
"Kazakhstan is responsible for its obligations in the fight against climate change. We'll actively participate in COP29, which will be held in Baku in November this year," he stated.
Tokayev noted that an event to combat climate change will be held in Kazakhstan in 2026, expressing hope for the active participation of Turkic people.
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.
