Azerbaijan discloses number of registered guests for COP29

Over 28,000guests have registered for COP29 to date, Narmin Jarchalova, Chairof COP29 Azerbaijan Operating Company and Chief Operating Officerfor COP29, told reporters during a media tour of the Baku OlympicStadium, reports. "About 2,700 of them are representatives of the media. The restare guests from official delegations of NGOs, internationalorganizations, and countries," she noted.

Jarchalova emphasized that this figure is higher than that ofthe events in Glasgow and Sharm El Sheikh. This November, Azerbaijan will host COP29. This decision wasmade at the COP28 plenary meeting held in Dubai on December 11 lastyear.



Baku will become the center of the world and will receiveabout 70–80,000 foreign guests. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is anagreement signed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992to prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system.COP—the Conference of the Parties—is the highest legislative bodyoverseeing the implementation of the Framework Convention onClimate Change.

There are 198 countries that are parties to theConvention. Unless the parties agree otherwise, the COP is heldannually. The first COP event took place in March 1995 in Germany'sBerlin with its secretariat in Bonn.

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