BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 15. Afghanistan will
participate in COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, Trend
reports referring to Abdulhadi Achakzai, an Afghan representative
on climate change and participant in COP27 and COP28 from the
country.

“COP29 promises to be a valuable experience for me and my team
representing Afghanistan. We have already started to prepare
ourselves to become strong negotiators on protecting the planet’s
environment and mitigating climate change,” he wrote in his social
media account.

The Afghan representative recalled that the country did not have
its own booth at COP28, but the Colombian government offered the
opportunity to make a presentation to the Afghan delegation on the
adverse effects of climate change in Afghanistan in its
pavilion.

“We want to show ourselves as reliable defenders of the
environment in Baku at COP29,” noted Achakzai, who has been
actively participating in all UN climate events in recent
years.

This November, Azerbaijan will host COP29. This decision was
made at the COP28 plenary meeting held in Dubai on December 11 last
year. Baku will become the center of the world and will receive
about 70–80,000 foreign guests.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is an
agreement signed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992
to prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system.
COP—the Conference of the Parties—is the highest legislative body
overseeing the implementation of the Framework Convention on
Climate Change. There are 198 countries that are parties to the
Convention. Unless the parties agree otherwise, the COP is held
annually. The first COP event took place in March 1995 in Berlin,
and its secretariat is located in Bonn.

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