This year Azerbaijan is hosting the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP-29). This is the largest international event in the country's history. About 80,000 foreign guests will arrive at COP29, which will be held from November 11 to 22 at the Baku Stadium, and more than 50 heads of state and government have confirmed their participation in this large-scale event. The main expectation from COP29 is to agree a fair and ambitious New Collective Quantitative Goal (NCQG) for climate finance.

The Mediterranean Sea temperature record since the beginning of modern observations was set in 2023, with the average surface temperature increasing by more than 1 degree Celsius in 25 years, there has been a gradual increase in temperature since 2013 in the southern Tyrrhenian Sea, spreading northwards, and warming of deeper layers, up to 800 meters. This is the conclusion reached by ENEA and INGV within the MACMAP project in collaboration with GNV, the ferry company of the MSC Group. This was reported on November 8 by the Italian publication AGI.