BAKU: The Gulf Cooperation Council’s Support and Monitoring Manager Talal Al Shaikh believes that the upcoming COP29 in Baku will give the world’s countries a chance to discuss and make fundamental decisions on decarbonization, Trend reports.
He made this statement in Baku during a panel discussion on ‘Cooperation on Renewable Energy Sources (RES), Clean Energy, Electricity, and Water Projects’ within the framework of the second Azerbaijan-Persian Gulf Economic Forum.
‘The Gulf countries have a great experience on the issues of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, construction of renewable energy sources (RES), integration of electricity from RES into the general power grid of a country, and ‘green’ hydrogen. All of the above issues are on the COP29 agenda, and this climate summit will be a chance to achieve important world results in this,’ Al-Shaikh said.
He added that most of the Gulf countries are oil and gas-producing countries.
‘However, our mission is to develop technologies to minimize harm to the e
nvironment and share our accumulated experience, including with Azerbaijan,’ he said.
Baku is hosting the second Azerbaijan-Persian Gulf Economic Forum (the first one was held in 2017).
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. 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.
A total of 198 countries are parties to the convention. Unless the parties have decided otherwise, COP is h
eld annually. The first COP event was held in March 1995 in Berlin, and its secretariat is located in Bonn.
Source: Trend News Agency