The second day of the Global Summit of Religious Leaders, themed “World Religions for a Green Planet,” commenced in Baku on Wednesday.
The event, held as part of the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP29) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, continued with a series of panel discussions.
Initiated and supported by President Ilham Aliyev, the summit is co-organized by Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources, the State Committee on Work with Religious Institutions, the Muslim Council of Elders, the Caucasus Muslims Office, and the United Nations Environment Programme.
The summit will see the adoption of the Baku Declaration and the appeal of the religious leaders to the COP29 participants.
The two-day summit brings together nearly 30 leaders from world and traditional religions, heads of prominent religious centers, including patriarchs, officials from the Vatican and Al-Azhar, and notable religious and public figures from various continents and faiths. Representatives from 55 countries and 30 international organizations are attending, including state, academic, religious figures, and media representatives.
The Summit participants will also visit the Azerbaijani liberated territories on Thursday to familiarize themselves with the Azerbaijani realities, including the acts of ecocide, urbicide and culturcide committed by Armenia in these areas.