A draft textual content printed on Sunday throughout this 12 months’s U.N. local weather summit in Dubai proposed subsequent 12 months’s COP29 local weather summit be hosted by Azerbaijan between Nov. 11 and Nov. 22.
The textual content will have to be adopted by the summit earlier than it turns into official, however is according to expectations after Azerbaijan gained backing from different Eastern European nations on Saturday.
The textual content additionally proposed dates for COP30 in Brazil of Nov. 10 to Nov. 21, 2025.
“We’re very grateful to all countries, in particular to the Eastern European group and the (COP28 summit) host United Arab Emirates for their support,” Azerbaijan’s Ecology Minister Mukhtar Babayev mentioned in an tackle from the principle stage at COP28 on Saturday.
Holding the presidency of a U.N. local weather summit offers a rustic enormous affect on its agenda and outcomes.
The COP28 summit within the United Arab Emirates has been the largest but, with greater than 90,000 delegates registered.
While the choice on who will host the occasion is normally made years prematurely to permit international locations time to organize, Aykhan Hajizada, a spokesperson at Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, informed Reuters on Friday that Baku was nicely outfitted to deal with the occasion.
Source: www.dailysabah.com