BAKU: Holding COP29 in Azerbaijan can make a serious contribution to solving global problems, Princeton University professor Michael Reynolds told Trend.

“As someone who has been to Azerbaijan a lot and knows about this country, its rich history, and its culture, I believe that holding COP29 provides a good opportunity for Azerbaijan to show itself to the world as a country capable of contributing to the resolution of serious global problems, such as environmental issues that affect all of us,” he said.

To note, Azerbaijan will host the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) 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 (Conference of Parties) stands for Conference of Parties, which is the highest legislative body overseeing the implementation of the Framework Convention on Climate Change.

The parties to the convention are 198 countries. Unless the parties have decided otherwise, COP is held annually. The first COP event was held in March 1995 in Germany’s Berlin, and its secretariat is located in Bonn.

Source: Trend News Agency