Unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1000)')))

Hello Team, I am using the pincone API in the python project. I am getting below error:-
urllib3.exceptions.MaxRetryError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host=‘api.pinecone.io’, port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /indexes (Caused by SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, ‘[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1000)’)))

I have tried pip3 install --upgrade certifi, but nothing worked…

Python Version
Python 3.12.0

Could you please guide me how to resolve this error?