The Global Baku Forum
NGIC annually holds Global Baku Forum, which has already become the premier event in Eastern Europe, South Caucasus, Central Asia and the Middle East, providing an opportunity for distinguished leaders and thinkers to discuss the ways and means to overcome some of the world’s most pressing challenges ranging from “Building Trust for a Wider Europe”, to “a New World Order” to designing more effective programs for “Shared Societies”, “Towards a Multipolar World”, “Addressing/Challenging Radicalization and Extremism with Interfaith Dialogue for Peace, “Bridging Gaps to Create Inclusive Societies”, Peace and Security in the Middle East”, to “Geopolitics in the Age of Sustainable Development”.
The XII Global Baku Forum, organized by the Nizami Ganjavi International Center, took place on March 13-15, 2025, under the theme “Rethinking World Order: Turning Challenges into Opportunities.”
16:15 - 17:45 | Panel: COP29 – Breakthrough to Belém: Accelerating Transformation
Speakers:
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Phoebe Koundouri, Professor, Athens University of Economics and Business; Co-Chair, SDSN Greece
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Maimunah Mohd Sharif, Mayor of Kuala Lumpur
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María Fernanda Espinosa, President of the 73rd Session of the UN General Assembly; Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador (2017-2018)
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Nigar Arpadarai, Member of Parliament; UN Climate Change High-Level Champion for COP29 (TBC)
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Lord Fakafanua, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Tonga
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Rashid Alimov, Secretary-General, SCO (2016-2018); Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan (1992-1994)
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Hakima El Haite, President of Liberal International
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Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, Climate and Energy Global Practice Leader, WWF; Minister of the Environment of Peru (2011-2016); President of UNFCCC COP20
Side Event: Sources of Global Turbulence and Remedies for the Global Challenges Confronting Humanity, 16 March 2025
Convenor: World Academy of Art and Science
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Host: Garry Jacobs, President, WAAS
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The Emerging World Order – Ketan Patel, Chair, Force for Good
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Root Causes and Drivers of Why we are Here – Garry Jacobs, President, WAAS
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Solutions, Initiatives and Strategies that Could Comprise Campaign to Taking the World Forward? - Group
The Nizami Ganjavi International Center (NGIC) is an international institution based in Azerbaijan, that celebrates the legacy of the great Azerbaijani poet and sage, Nizami Ganjavi, and promotes the participation of high-level eminent figures in the study of possible solutions for the pressing problems of our times, with a view to promoting knowledge, tolerance, dialogue and understanding.
Force for Good attended and participated in the main event and the side event hosted by its partner, The World Academy of Art and Science, on the subject of ‘Sources of Global Turbulence and Remedies for the Global Challenges Confronting Humanity, February 16, 2025’.