COP29 - High Level Roundtable 3: Enhanced Climate Action in Tourism: Innovative Solutions and Way Forward (organized in collaboration with COP29)
16:00 – 17:00 (AZT)
"Earth" Conference Room, Green Zone
This closing panel, organized in collaboration with COP29, will synthesize insights from earlier discussions, focusing on practical and innovative solutions that can accelerate the tourism sector's climate action. Building on the policy alignment and commitments shared during the Ministerial Meeting and the strategic pathways explored in the High-Level Roundtables on measurement, decarbonization, regeneration, and finance, this session aims to forge a collective vision for the future of climate-resilient tourism. Panelists will outline transformative actions to propel tourism's climate ambition from commitments to impactful outcomes, discussing synergies across sectors and tools to enhance collaboration, scale finance, and deploy regenerative and adaptive practices at pace and scale. This panel will set the stage for a coordinated approach, fostering resilience and low-carbon tourism development worldwide.
This meeting is part of the UN Climate Change COP29 Thematic Day on Tourism. Find out more here.
Programme:
Panel discussion:
Moderator: Ms. Virginia Fernández-Trapa, Programme Coordinator, Sustainable Tourism and Resilience, UN Tourism
- Ms. Gunay Bayramova, Head of Division, Tourism Policy and Strategy, State Tourism Agency of Azerbaijan
- Mr. Heitor Kadri, Head of the International Relations Department, Ministry of Tourism, Brazil
- Ms. Erika Harms, Global Sustainability Director, Iberostar Group
- Ms. Shannon Guihan, Chief Sustainability Officer, The Travel Corporation
- Ms. Amy Lewis, Climate Change Operations Senior Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank
Closing:
- Mr. Kanan Gasimov, Chief of Cabinet, State Tourism Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan
- Ms. Zoritsa Urosevic, Executive Director, UN Tourism
