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2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference
The 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC, more commonly known as COP29, was the 29th United Nations Climate Change conference. It was held at Baku Olympic Stadium in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 11 to 22 November 2024. Mukhtar Babayev presided, while Samir Nuriyev headed the Organising Committee. The conference concluded with an agreement on plans for finance to Climate change mitigation, mitigate the effects of climate change and help developing nations transition to more sustainable energy sources. Rules and a UN registry were agreed to facilitate and record international trading of carbon credits. The choice of Azerbaijan as the location for the conference was controversial because it is Petroleum industry in Azerbaijan, a major oil and gas producer and Human rights in Azerbaijan, authoritarian state with extensive corruption, with several "official partners" of COP29 being businesses directly owned by President of Azerbaijan Il ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baku Olympic Stadium
Baku Olympic Stadium () is a stadium, designed and constructed to meet the international standards for stadiums set by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) and the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). Having seating capacity for 69,870 people, it is the List of football stadiums in Azerbaijan, largest stadium in Azerbaijan. Despite the name, it has never hosted and is not scheduled to host any competition of the Olympic Games. Construction of the stadium on a site was completed in February 2015. The six-storey, structure near Boyukshor Lake, Baku, Azerbaijan, opened on 6 March 2015. The main tenant of the stadium is Azerbaijan's Azerbaijan national football team, national football team, who moved from their previous home at the Tofiq Bahramov Republican Stadium. In June 2015, the stadium served as the main venue for the 2015 European Games, hosting the opening and closing ceremonies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
