The Baku Climate Action Week makes a comeback on the Caspian Sea's coastline on September 7 with a five-day program centered on a principle that remains elusive at the annual United Nations climate conferences: continuity. The Baku Climate Action Week will be held for the third time ever, with this edition carrying more weight as an institution than any before. For the first time, the Baku Climate Action Week coincides with the Regional Climate Week of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

This is a lineage that is worth tracing, in the sense that it reflects a format that is still being found rather than stagnating. The Climate Action Week format was developed in London in 2019, prior to COP26, as an attempt at sustaining the momentum beyond the diplomatic formality of the annual COPs. Baku introduced this concept in 2024 by holding its first edition prior to COP29, and held a second edition in 2025 when Brazil hosted COP30. The current edition of the event is explicitly positioned as a transition to a third summit, which will take place in Türkiye for COP31, and the organisers are selling the format as a means of building continuity between presidencies rather than having each new host build from the ground up.

What is on the agenda?

The opening day gives a good sense of where the practical........

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