On 10 and 11 October, Commissioner for Climate Action Wopke Hoekstra will participate in the Pre-COP29 meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan, the EU delegation in Azerbaijan told reporters.

Today, Commissioner Hoekstra will attend the Plenary discussion ‘Road to COP29' and three breakout sessions held during the day on climate mitigation, adaptation to climate change and loss and damage, and the new collective quantified goal on climate finance (NCQG). This week, the Council of the EU has approved conclusions on climate finance, while the EU negotiating mandate for COP29 is expected to be agreed at the Environment Council meeting of 15th October.

The Commissioner will also give a keynote speech and participate in a panel discussion at a side event called ‘Roadmap to Mission 1.5', on preparing the next round of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) for next year, and aligning them with the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5C.

The Commissioner will also have bilateral meetings with: Amina J. Mohammed, UN Deputy Secretary-General and Chair of the UN Sustainable Development Group; Yasmine Fouad, Egyptian Minister of Environment; Olga Givernet, French Minister-Delegate for Energy, attached to the Minister for the Ecological Transition, Energy, the Climate and Risk Prevention; and Grace Fu, Minister for Sustainability and the Environment of Singapore. In the evening, he will take part in a Ministerial dinner organised by the COP29 Presidency.

On Friday, Commissioner Hoekstra will attend the Plenary discussions, focused on unlocking the potential of carbon markets via Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, and taking forward the outcomes of the first Global Stocktake of the Paris Agreement. He will also meet bilaterally during the day with the German State Secretary and Special Envoy for International Climate Action, Jennifer Morgan; the Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment of South Africa, Dion George; and the Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Kazakhstan, Yerlan Nyssanbayev.

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