TBILISI: Asian Development Bank has already initiated technical assistance to Azerbaijan for COP29, ADB Director General for Central and Western Asia Eugenue Zhukov said during a briefing within the ADB annual meeting in Tbilisi today, Trend reports.

“Azerbaijan was selected to be the host of COP 29. Some people may criticize that kind of choice, because why you are putting COP29 in a country that relies almost completely on fossil fuel for its export revenues. But in fact, if we look at it from an absolutely opposite perspective, as we saw last year in Dubai COP28, being selected as a COP chair actually gives a great incentive to the host country to take forward the measures to reduce the impacts of climate change and also to reduce the carbon footprint of the economy,” he said.

He reminded that the ADB President has already expressed support for hosting COP29 in Azerbaijan. “We have already initiated technical assistance to build capacity of the government to conduct successful negotiations at COP29”.

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is November, Azerbaijan will host COP29. The COP28 plenary meeting in Dubai on December 11 last year made this decision. Baku will become the world’s center, receiving about 70-80,000 foreign guests.

At the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992, the United Nations signed the Framework Convention on Climate Change as an agreement 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. 198 countries sign the Convention. Unless the parties agree otherwise, the COP is held annually. The first COP event took place in March 1995 in Berlin, and its secretariat is located in Bonn.

Source: Trend News Agency