BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 17. The second day of the Parliamentary Meeting at COP29, jointly organized by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the Azerbaijani Parliament, has wrapped up in Baku, Trend reports.
A series of sessions were held during the meeting, focusing on issues such as tackling climate vulnerability and advancing fair climate action, leveraging technology to combat climate change, ensuring food security and health protection in changing conditions, managing migration triggered by climate change, and other crucial topics.
The final document was adopted during the Parliamentary Meeting at COP29.
The event was attended by IPU Secretary-General Martin Chungong, Speaker of the Azerbaijani Parliament Sahiba Gafarova, IPU Vice-President from Azerbaijan, MP Sevill Mikayilova, MP Soltan Mammadov, and other officials.
At the end of the two-day meeting, the participants also outlined next steps in the fight against climate change.
The 29th session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) officially began in Baku on November 11.
The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, signed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992, aims to prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system. The Conference of the Parties (COP) is the highest legislative body overseeing the Convention’s implementation.
The Convention has 198 parties, and COP meetings are held annually unless otherwise agreed. The first COP event took place in March 1995 in Berlin, with its Secretariat based in Bonn.
