BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 1. Individuals
arriving from abroad, including local residents, will be required
to use special buses operating within the airport premises during
the initial three days of COP29 in Azerbaijan’s Baku, Chairman of
the Board of the Azerbaijan Land Transport Agency under the
Ministry of Digital Development and Transport Anar Rzayev said at a
briefing dedicated to the transportation plan for the conference.
Trend
reports.
“Vehicles will only be allowed to enter the airport to drop off
passengers at Terminal 2 in the first three days,” he stated.
To note, the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to
the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) will be held
in Azerbaijan in November this year. The decision was made at the
plenary meeting of COP28 held in Dubai on December 11 last
year.
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.
A total of 198 countries are parties to the convention. Unless
the parties have decided otherwise, COP is held annually. The first
COP event was held in March 1995 in Berlin, and its secretariat is
located in Bonn.
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