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Cop29 jargon buster: key terms for this year’s climate conference in Azerbaijan

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 11 November 2024

Here are some of the phrases that are likely to crop up over the coming days in Baku

Cop29 will be the 29th conference of the parties to the UN framework convention on climate change (UNFCCC), the parent treaty to the 2015 Paris agreement. It takes place in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, on the shores of the Caspian Sea, where some of the world’s first ever oil wells were dug in the mid-19th century . Azerbaijan has a claim to be the world’s first petrostate, and is still dependent on oil and gas for 90% of its export revenues.