First Ministerial Meeting on Enhanced Climate Action in Tourism

The collaboration of the State Tourism Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan and UN Tourism, with support from UNEP, have been instrumental to this landmark achievement. This meeting represents an opportunity for the tourism sector to showcase its critical role and advancements in addressing climate change, recognizing both its vulnerability to climate impacts and its potential to contribute to solutions, thus setting the stage for future collaboration, policy innovations and private sector engagement.

Ministers will discuss the alignment of tourism policies with climate change mitigation and adaptation measures to ensure that tourism development contributes to national and global climate goals while building resilience, in line with the COP29 Declaration on Enhanced Climate Action in Tourism.

The action framework proposed by the Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism will be reflected upon, as well as the opportunity to advance the implementation of the UN Statistical Framework Measuring the Sustainability of Tourism (MST) and the need for finance and innovation to transition to Net Zero tourism operations. Ministries of Tourism and stakeholders participating are invited to:

- Endorse the Baku Declaration on Enhanced Climate Action in Tourism (further information p.20 here: hyperlink to be added: https://cop29.az/storage/1135/COP29-Declarations-and-Pledges-Letter.pdf )

- Become signatories of the Glasgow Declaration Initiative on Climate Action in Tourism ((further information here: hyperlink to be added: https://www.unwto.org/the-glasgow-declaration-on-climate-action-in-tourism )