COP29, which will be held at the Baku Olympic Stadium from November 11 to 22, 2024, will be the largest event Azerbaijan has organized to date and the first in broader region. The Host Country Agreement and other important documents have already been signed between the Government of Azerbaijan and the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The World Leaders Climate Action Summit, the highest-level event of COP29, will take place on November 12-13, 2024. The primary expectation for the COP29 Presidency is an agreement on a fair and ambitious New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) on climate finance. The COP29 Presidency has put forward 14 initiatives covering topics such as the link between climate action and sustainable development goals, green energy zones and corridors, energy storage, harmony for climate resilience, agriculture, clean hydrogen, methane reduction from organic waste, green digital action, and more. Additionally, one of the initiatives includes the establishment of the Climate Finance Action Fund. As emphasized by the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, COP29 is a result of a peace process, and in this regard, one of Azerbaijan’s COP29 Action Agenda initiatives will be the “COP Truce Appeal.”
Interview with Chief Executive Officer of COP29 Azerbaijan, Elnur Soltanov
