"In Solidarity for a Green World" is the theme of the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29), a high-level international summit that will take place from 11-22 November in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, to enhance collaboration between countries to facilitate the path towards energy transition and the fight against climate change. This global summit, which represents a crucial opportunity to accelerate action to tackle the climate crisis, involves a team of specialists led by Professor Martí Orta-Martínez, from the Faculty of Biology and the Institute for Research on Biodiversity (IRBio) at the University of Barcelona, and with the participation of experts Guillem Rius-Taberner, Alejandro Marcos and Gorka Muñoa (UB, IRBio).
The atlas of non-extractable oil in the world
Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent, intense and destructive, and strong action is needed to mitigate climate change. COP29, chaired by Mukhtar Babayev, Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Azerbaijan, will be the international focal point to urgently address climate change priorities and to bring together common agreements and commitments on environmental and climate action across the globe.
In this context of climate emergency, the UB team is the author of a study ( Nature Communications , 2024) that presented the atlas of non-extractable oil in the world.
