European Commissioner for Climate Action to visit Azerbaijan

BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 19. European
Commissioner for Climate Action Wopke Hoekstra will visit
Azerbaijan tomorrow, the European Commission said in a statement,
Trend reports.

According to the information he will be in Baku to meet with
national authorities and civil society and advance preparations for
the forthcoming COP29 UN Climate Change Conference to be hosted in
the country in November.

“While in Baku, Commissioner Hoekstra will meet with COP29
President-designate and Azerbaijani Minister for Ecology and
Natural Resources, Mukhtar Babayev and the COP29 Presidency team.
He will also hold bilateral meetings with the Energy Minister,
Parviz Shahbazov, and with the Foreign Affairs Minister, Jeyhun
Bayramov. He will also have an exchange with representatives from
civil society in Azerbaijan.

This trip takes place right after the Bonn Climate Conference
held from 3 to 13 June, in which delegates from across the globe
had important discussions on the follow-up to the first Global
Stocktake of the Paris Agreement agreed at COP28, the New
Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance and the future
Nationally Determined Contributions – all vital issues for COP29″,
the statement says.