Baku Call on Climate Action for Peace, Relief, and Recovery

 

On November 15th, 2024, the COP29 Presidency launched the Baku Call on Climate Action for Peace, Relief, and Recovery (BCCAP). This initiative responds to the growing recognition that the adverse effects of climate change—such as water scarcity, food insecurity, land degradation and human displacement—can act as catalysts for conflict and instability, especially in the most climate-vulnerable regions. 

The Call was launched by Azerbaijani Minister of Foreign Affairs Jeyhun Bayramov at the High-level panel titled "Climate and Peace: Enabling Joint Action to Leave No One Behind” of inaugurating the COP29 Peace, Relief, and Recovery Day. The event brought together Ministers and Governmental Envoys from a wide range of countries across both the Global North and South to develop a strategy for preventing conflict-induced conflicts and scaling up support for climate and conflict vulnerable nations with high humanitarian needs. 

Through multiple rounds of consultations over the last six months, the COP29 Presidency has developed, in collaboration with Partner Co-lead countries of Egypt, Italy, Germany, Uganda, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom, who has already endorsed The Call, the concrete, solution-oriented responses that build upon climate and peace initiatives championed by previous COP Presidencies.  It has established the Baku Climate and Peace Action Hub as a coordination platform to deliver on pledges to mitigate challenges on peace and climate nexus. The COP29 Presidency will host the Secretariat of the Hub in Baku.