BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 17. The Azerbaijani
Center for Analysis and Coordination of the Fourth Industrial
Revolution (C4IR) is ready to provide all possible assistance to
business and state entities of Azerbaijan before COP29, the
center’s Executive Director Fariz Jafarov said at the “Enhancing
Ambition, Enabling Action: COP29 Sustainable Business Forum” event
in Baku on May 17, Trend reports.

He briefed on the importance of introducing cutting-edge
technologies and using artificial intelligence in Azerbaijan’s
green economy.

According to the official, the center is implementing 16
initiatives on cutting-edge technologies in the country.

“There is interest in the design of green buildings, the
introduction of nanotechnology for the production of solar panels,
and modern water purification and desalination systems. The Next
Generation Technology Center has been created in Baku,” he
emphasized.

Jafarov mentioned that the center is in constant interaction
with the government of Azerbaijan on energy transition
processes.

To note, this November, Azerbaijan will host COP29. This
decision was made at the COP28 plenary meeting held in Dubai on
December 11 last year. Baku will become the center of the world and
will receive about 70–80,000 foreign guests.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is an
agreement signed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992
to prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system.
COP – the Conference of the Parties – is the highest legislative
body overseeing the implementation of the Framework Convention on
Climate Change. There are 198 countries that are parties to the
Convention. Unless the parties agree otherwise, the COP is held
annually. The first COP event took place in March 1995 in Berlin,
and its secretariat is located in Bonn.

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