COP29, the United Nations next climate conference in 2024, is scheduled for November 11-24 in Baku, Azerbaijan, which is located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and West Asia. Azerbaijan chose Ecology Minister Mukhtar Babayev to lead the COP29 event.
The previous COP28 event, held in United Arab Emirates (UAE) in November-December 2023, attracted roughly 97,000 attendees — including heads of state, government officials, international industry leaders, private sector representatives, academics, experts, youth, and non-state actors, the UAE said.
Near the end of a crucial year 2024 in which most of the global population – from the UK, the EU and the US to India and Russia – will head to the polls. “Even if new administrations are formed, they will face the same need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and tackle global heating, the president of Cop29, Mukhtar Babayev, has said.
