The Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry of Azerbaijan together with the Agency for State Support to Non-governmental Organisations has announced the Competition “International Initiatives related to COP29” for NGOs.
The submission of documents for the competition will start from Tuesday, July 16, 2024.
The deadline for applications is August 16, 2024. After that, documents collected from NGOs will be examined and projects will be analysed, in order to identify the winners.
The projects presented should be relevant to the topic of global climate change. While
Upper limit of grant amount on Medium Grant Competition (MGC) over an implementation period up to six months is $17,647, the upper limit of grant amount for Large Grant Competition is $29,412.
Meanwhile, Ed Miliband is to take personal control of the UK’s negotiations at vital international climate talks, in stark contrast to his Tory predecessors.
The Guardian of London reports that the energy security and net zero secretary will attend COP29, this year’s UN climate summit, in Azerbaijan this November to head the UK’s delegation and meet political leaders from around the world.
Senior figures in climate diplomacy welcomed the move and said UK leadership would be vital to what is expected to be a tricky and fraught UN climate summit this year.
Christiana Figueres, the former UN climate chief who presided over the Paris Agreement, now founding partner of the Global Optimism thinktank, said: “Ed Miliband has proven experience at Cops and all matters related to those multilateral negotiations. Throughout 14 years he has kept his vigilant eye on the ups and downs, and will not need to start from scratch at all.”
Figueres added: “The fact that the multilateral negotiations will be led by the secretary of energy himself instead of delegating to a junior minister denotes recognition of the importance of the process as we near the halfway point in this decisive decade. We could not be more pleased with the news.”
