BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 9. John Podesta, Senior Advisor to US President Joe Biden for International Climate Policy, has arrived in Azerbaijan, the US Embassy wrote on X, Trend reports.

“We sincerely welcome Chief Counselor for International Climate Policy John Podesta, who arrived in the country to participate in the COP29 pre-conference meetings and strengthen cooperation between Azerbaijan and the US on critical climate issues,” the publication of the embassy reads.

To note, the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) will be held in Azerbaijan in November this year. The decision was made at the plenary meeting of COP28 held in Dubai on December 11 last year. Within two weeks, Baku, having become the center of the world, will host about 70,000–80,000 foreign guests.

The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change is an agreement signed at the Rio Earth Summit in June 1992 to prevent dangerous human interference in the climate system. The acronym COP (Conference of Parties) stands for Conference of Parties, which is the highest legislative body overseeing the implementation of the Framework Convention on Climate Change.

A total of 198 countries are parties to the convention. Unless the parties have decided otherwise, COP is held annually. The first COP event was held in March 1995 in Germany's Berlin with its secretariat in Bonn.