A high-level forum on South-South cooperation in combating climate change was held at the China Pavilion during COP29 in Baku.
Addressing the event, Huang Runqiu, China's Minister of Ecology and Environment, said that amid the complicated and ever-changing international situation, “we can only effectively address global challenges, including the climate crisis, by enhancing multilateralism and international cooperation.”
He emphasized that a memorandum of understanding was signed with 42 developing countries within the framework of South-South cooperation.
The panel session featured discussions on topics such as South-South cooperation for sustainable development, the green energy transition in Africa, and the positive impacts of the Zero-Carbon Island Cooperation Initiative on global climate governance.
The speakers at the forum included Simon Steele, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Elnur Soltanov, Azerbaijan’s Deputy Minister of Energy and Chief Executive Officer of COP29, Hua Liu, Deputy Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and Kitty van der Heijden, UNICEF Deputy Executive Director.
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