BAKU: The COP29 Presidency is hosting world climate leaders, government officials, constituencies, and delegates at Pre-COP in Baku, Azerbaijan in order to discuss key environmental problem facing the planet.
The 3-day Pre-COP meeting, which began October 10, provides a main forum for parties to advance climate talks ahead of the 29th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, set to take place in next month.
Pre-COP talks are mainly focusing on making progress on top priorities before COP29, including climate finance, mitigation, adaptation, the New Collective Quantified Goal, and supporting vulnerable communities, according to the organizers.
In an address delivered on his behalf by COP29 president-designate Mukhtar Babayev, President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan has emphasized the significance of agreeing an NCQG at COP29 that “meets the needs of the developing, small island and least developed developing states and represents a “substantial increase” over the prior target.
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Aliyev stated reaching this target would need the collaboration of the world. He said that neither Azerbaijan in its capacity of the COP29 Presidency, nor any other country, can take decisions on behalf of others. He said that their role is to provide the platform for facilitating talks, which they believe they have been fulfilling impartially.
