COP29 Climate Change Summit
The 29th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP29) will take place in Azerbaijan from 11 November – 22 December 2024 – uniting the world to tackle climate change.
At Sweco, we aim to be a role model in sustainability, taking responsibility for and being part of the solution to society’s sustainability and carbon reduction challenges. Our commitment is to do more to support and challenge our clients in delivering innovative solutions through expert consultancy and high-quality design.
Max Joy President, Sweco UK
This year’s COP climate change summit looks at climate change through the lens of multiple key ‘cross-cutting’ themes, each pivotal in agreeing a co-ordinated and consistent agenda to fight this global emergency:
- Action for Climate Empowerment & Children and Youth
- Adaptation and resilience
- Capacity-building
- Climate Finance
- Climate Technology
- Cooperative activities and SDGs
- Gender
- Global Stocktake
- Innovation
- Just Transition
- Land Use
- Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform
- Market and Non-Market Mechanisms
- Mitigation
- Pre-2020 Ambition and Implementation
- Science
- The Ocean
What is COP and what is its purpose?
The Conference of Parties (a party being one of 197 nations and territories) exists to monitor and review steps being taken to achieve targets set out in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Sweco’s core green solutions
- Environmental Consultancy
- Carbon Management
- Renewable Energy Solutions
- Urban Energy Solutions
- Water, Energy & Industry Services
- Ecology & Biodiversity Consultancy
- Active & Sustainable Travel
- Flood Risk Management
- Environmental Impact Assessments
- Clean Air Zone Consultancy
- Air Quality Consultancy
- Landscape Architecture
- Building Sustainability