For several days now, the world’s attention has been focused on the capital of Azerbaijan, Baku. The reason, of course, is the long-awaited COP29 conference. After a perfect preparatory process carried out in a short time, Baku receives more than 70,000 foreign guests, more than 80 presidents, vice presidents and heads of government. Great interest was aroused by the opening ceremony of the Leaders’ Summit of the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which took place on 12 November. President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev The messages he addressed to the world during his speech at the inaugural summit reveal our country’s priorities in the fight against climate change.
“Caspian” newspaper article on the subject.
A show of respect to our country.
As the Head of State also underlined, Azerbaijan had the honor of hosting COP29 by unanimous decision of almost 200 countries in December last year: “We consider this decision as a sign of respect for our country and an appreciation of the active role we play in the international level. It is the country where the East is located and it is not just about geography. We can build political, cultural, energy, commercial and transportation bridges between the different international participants. The megaprojects initiated by Azerbaijan have already changed the energy and transportation routes. transport of Eurasia and resulted in the establishment of a productive multilateral cooperation format.
Azerbaijan is a supporter of multilateralism
President Ilham Aliyev said that as President of COP29, Azerbaijan will do everything possible to achieve a common understanding between developed and developing countries, the Global South and the Global North. In this sense, he highlighted that our country successfully presided over the Non-Aligned Movement for four years, which is the second international organization after the UN, with the unanimous decision of 120 countries, and that Azerbaijan is an active member of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, which unites about 60 countries. In his words, Azerbaijan is a supporter of multilateralism.
“This is just the beginning”
The President of Azerbaijan also spoke about the Green Agenda of our country. He said our technical potential in renewable energy is 135 gigawatts onshore and 157 gigawatts offshore: “We plan to build approximately six gigawatts of solar, wind and hydroelectric plants until 2030. However, these are not all of our complete plans, 10 gigawatts Agreements and MoUs have been signed on renewable energy projects. We are also focusing on export markets and actively working with our partners to implement another important energy security project, starting with the Caspian Sea and laying an energy cable under the Sea. Black. This will allow us to export green energy to Europe. The technical potential of this cable is four gigawatts. By the way, the technical grounding work will be completed soon.
A unique opportunity for Central Asia
By the way, Azerbaijan has also included the Central Asian countries (Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan) in its green energy plans. “Agreement on strategic partnership in the field of development and transmission of green energy between the governments of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Republic of Uzbekistan”. This agreement is once again a clear example that Baku’s green agenda is materialized not only in words, but also in deeds, and its scope is regional and global.
COP29 is on the international media agenda
The successful results achieved by Baku in achieving the objectives set by COP29 are also on the international media agenda. In particular, reaching consensus on standards for creating carbon credits on the first day of the conference is considered the first major success of COP29.
The Financial Times quoted Fitri Vulandri, an analyst at carbon data provider Veit, as saying it was “a rare bright spot of cooperation and progress at COP29.”
“An early agreement was given the green light on the first day of the UN conference in Baku, Azerbaijan. Although Donald Trump’s victory in the US elections reduced expectations, governments intend to sign the climate finance agreement” , says the article written by the Reuters agency, staff members Virginia Fournette and Keith Abnett say.
In the material written by Bloomberg correspondent John Einger, it is noted that climate negotiators made progress on the first day of the COP29 climate summit by agreeing on the rules for the global carbon market administered by the United Nations. In the material written by correspondent John Einger of the Bloomberg agency, the note Climate negotiators made progress on the first day of the COP29 climate summit by agreeing on rules for a global carbon market managed by the United Nations.
Baku can make a name for itself
All these facts prove that Azerbaijan, as always, can make its name known to the world in the best sense. As a result of the determined political will of the top leaders of the State, coherent and successful measures are being taken to achieve the established objectives.
In this sense, there is no doubt that COP29 will become part of Azerbaijan’s success story. Baku will make its valuable contribution to the fight against climate change with its great welcome and diplomatic activity to reach consensus.
