♦ The annual U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP29) kicked off in Baku, Azerbaijan on 11 November 2024.

♦ The annual summit, which is held in a different location every year, brings together world leaders and thousands of other representatives of nations that are party to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.

♦ COP29 will be held until 22 November.

♦ The United States joined the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, an international treaty, in 1992 and has attended its conferences known as COP, for "Conference of Parties".

♦ The COP28 was held in Dubai in 2023.