BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 3. Turkish President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan is set to travel to Azerbaijan to participate
in the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN
Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29), scheduled to take
place in Baku, Trend reports.
Erdogan’s visit is scheduled for November 11-12.
The conference will also feature several events as part of the
Zero Waste initiative, which is being supported by Emine Erdogan,
Türkiye’s First Lady.
COP29 will be held in Azerbaijan on November 11-22. This
decision was made during the COP28 plenary session that occurred in
Dubai on December 11, 2023.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is an
agreement that was signed at the Earth Summit in June 1992 in Rio
de Janeiro, aimed at preventing harmful human interference with the
climate system. The acronym “COP” stands for “Conference of the
Parties,” which is the highest legislative body responsible for
overseeing the implementation of the Framework Convention.
The convention has 198 member countries. Unless agreed
otherwise, the COP convenes annually. The inaugural COP took place
in Berlin in March 1995, with its secretariat based in Bonn.
