Chief Adviser Prof Muhsammad Yunus will join the "World Leaders Climate Action Summit" at COP 29 on Tuesday, convening world leaders to present national statements on how they are advancing the Paris Agreement on climate change.

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev invited Heads of State and Government (HoS/G) to participate in the two-day World Leaders Climate Action Summit (WLCAS).

The invitation to the WLCAS in the Republic of Azerbaijan during COP 29 signifies the importance for world leaders to engage and enhance ambition and enable action to reduce emissions, adapt to climate change, and address loss and damage, to implement and transform key climate related decisions into concrete actions and credible plans to tackle climate change, said the organizers.

The Summit aims to build consensus and momentum around the COP 29 plan to enhance ambition and enable action and demonstrate to all stakeholders a clear political will to deliver.

It will address raising ambition for mitigation and adaptation through nationally determined contributions (NDCs), National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), and long-term low-emission development strategies (LT-LEDS), enabling action with the New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate (NCQG), and other means of implementation and support.

Prof Yunus is expected to meet Al Azhar Grand Imam Ahmed el Tayyeb at a hotel in Baku on Tuesday morning before attending the opening session of the World Leaders Climate Action Summit at Nizami Plenary Hall, Baku Stadium, a senior official accompanying the Chief Adviser told UNB.

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He will join a closed door Climate Leaders Meeting hosted by Germany and Chile.

Prof Yunus will also join a roundtable on "Access to Finance for Smallscale Farmers" to be co-hosted by Bangladesh and the Netherlands.

During the event, the Presidency will co-host a methane and non-carbon dioxide (non-CO2) greenhouse gas (GHG) summit with the US and China.

Earlier, the Chief Adviser arrived in Baku to attend the UN's biggest climate conference, COP29, which is seen as a "pivotal opportunity" to accelerate action to tackle the climate crisis.

Bangladesh Ambassador to Turkey Amanul Haq, among others, was present at the airport to receive the Chief Adviser upon his arrival at 5:15pm (Baku time) on Monday.

Prof Yunus is leading a small delegation and will return home on November 14, a senior official at the CA's office told UNB.

Global leaders and diplomats from across the world are joining the annual climate summit to discuss how to avoid increasing threats from climate change in a place that was one of the birthplaces of the oil industry.

The 29th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) is taking place from November 11 to 22.