# cci_overview

name: Tech Zero
web_url: https://techzero.io/
description:
In 2021 in the UK, a group of leading tech companies came together to launch Tech Zero. They knew that by working together, they could make faster progress to net zero.\nThey want companies of all sizes from around the world to join them by making Tech Zero commitments and taking action to reduce their emissions.\n\nThere are 5 reasons why one should join the initiative: 1) The Tech Zero commitments are ambitious but achievable, and show you’re committed to playing your part in tackling the climate crisis. They directly align with the Race to Zeros 5Ps: Pledge to reach net zero, Plan to reach net zero, Proceed to take action, Publish a net zero plan, and Persuade others to take climate action; 2) They provide support and guidance whenever they’re needed, and hold each signatory accountable; 3) Rather than grappling with the challenge of net zero on your own, you’ll be part of a huge network of companies committed to accelerating progress to net zero. Members are encouraged to share their experience and solutions to overcoming challenges, and they’re always highlighting best practice and inspirational actions for others to follow; 4) You’ll have access to exclusive events with climate experts, leading companies who are well on the way to net zero, as well as the most exciting green tech startups who can help you measure and reduce your emissions using the latest technology; 5) They provide exclusive offers from green tech startups, update members on the latest solutions, and give tech companies the opportunity to work on their world-changing technologies through their annual hackathon.\n\nThe companies committing to Tech Zero have several commitments that they have to meet and are held accountable for such as annually measuring and publishing all their greenhouse gas emissions, publish a net zero plan, and align their policies and partnerships to their net zero goals.


name: UN-Convened Net Zero Banking Alliance
alt_names: NZBA,Net Zero Banking Alliance
web_url: https://www.unepfi.org/net-zero-banking/
description:
Industry-led and UN-convened, the Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) is a group of leading global banks committed to financing ambitious climate action to transition the real economy to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. NZBA’s framework, guidance, and peer learning opportunities support members to design, set, and achieve credible science-based net zero targets for 2030 or sooner that deliver value for their investors, clients, and customers. NZBA is the climate accelerator for UNEP FI’s Principles for Responsible Banking (PRB) and the sector-specific alliance for banks under the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ).\nNZBA member banks sign a Commitment Statement and pledged to follow the target setting and reporting processes outlined there and in the accompanying Guidelines for Climate Target Setting for Banks.\nAll banks that have signed the commitment will: 1) Transition the operational and attributable greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from their lending and investment portfolios to align with pathways to net-zero by 2050 or sooner; 2) Within 18 months of joining, set targets for 2030 or sooner and a 2050 target, with intermediary targets to be set every 5 years from 2030 onwards; 3) Banks’ first 2030 targets will focus on priority sectors where the bank can have the most significant impact, ie. the most GHG-intensive sectors within their portfolios, with further sector targets to be set within 36 months; 4) Annually publish absolute emissions and emissions intensity in line with best practice and within a year of setting targets, disclose progress against a board-level reviewed transition strategy setting out proposed actions and climate-related sectoral policies; 5) Take a robust approach to the role of offsets in transition plans.\nThe commitment is underpinned by the bank-led UNEP FI Guidelines for Climate Target Setting for Banks. They outline four principles for target-setting: 1) Banks shall set and publicly disclose long-term and intermediate targets to support meeting the temperature goals of the Paris Agreement; 2) Banks shall establish an emissions baseline and annually measure and report the emissions profile of their lending portfolios and investment activities; 3) Banks shall use widely accepted science-based decarbonisation scenarios to set both long-term and intermediate targets that are aligned with the temperature goals of the Paris Agreement; 4) Banks shall regularly review targets to ensure consistency with current climate science; 5) Consult the Intermediate Target Disclosure Checklist to ensure your bank’s intermediate targets meet the criteria set out above and review the Supporting Notes for the guidelines for additional clarification on target-setting.


name: Global Coal to Clean Power Transition Statement
web_url: https://ukcop26.org/global-coal-to-clean-power-transition-statement/
description:
The undersigned commit to work together to make clean power the most affordable and accessible option globally, with ensuing economic and health benefits as we build back better from the COVID pandemic. \n\nThe shared vision is to accelerate a transition away from unabated coal power generation, as is essential to meet our shared goals under the Paris Agreement, in a way that benefits workers and communities and ensures access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all by 2030 (SDG7).\n\nThe undersigned commit to the following actions to drive this global transition forward, and we encourage others to make similar commitments: 1) To rapidly scale up their deployment of clean power generation and energy efficiency measures in their economies, and to support other countries to do the same, recognising the leadership shown by countries making ambitious commitments, including through support from the Energy Transition Council; 2) To rapidly scale up technologies and policies in this decade to achieve a transition away from unabated coal power generation in the 2030s (or as soon as possible thereafter) for major economies and in the 2040s (or as soon as possible thereafter) globally, consistent with their climate targets and the Paris Agreement, recognising the leadership shown by countries making ambitious commitments, including through the Powering Past Coal Alliance; 3) To cease issuance of new permits for new unabated coal-fired power generation projects (New’ coal-fired power generation projects are defined as coal-fired power generation projects that have not yet reached financial close), cease new construction of unabated coal-fired power generation projects and to end new direct government support for unabated international coal-fired power generation, recognising the leadership of countries making ambitious commitments, including through the No New Coal Power Compact; 4) To strengthen their domestic and international efforts to provide a robust framework of financial, technical, and social support to affected workers, sectors and communities to make a just and inclusive transition away from unabated coal power in a way that benefits them, and expands access to clean energy for all, recognising the leadership of countries endorsing the COP26 Just Transition Declaration.\nThe undersigned recognize that countries, workers, and communities in the developing world require support to transition from coal and realise a sustainable and economically inclusive energy future, and that international co-operation will be needed to provide such support.


name: Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance
alt_names: BOGA
web_url: https://beyondoilandgasalliance.org/
description:
BOGA is an international alliance of governments and stakeholders working together to facilitate the managed phase-out of oil and gas production. The alliance aims to elevate the issue of oil and gas production phase-out in international climate dialogues, mobilize action and commitments, and create an international community of practice on this issue.


name: First movers Coalition
web_url: https://www.weforum.org/first-movers-coalition
description:
The First Movers Coalition is an ambitious coalition of companies committing to harness their purchasing power and supply chains to create early markets for innovative clean energy technologies.\nAnnounced by President Biden at the COP26 World Leaders Summit, the First Movers Coalition was created through a partnership between the U.S. State Department’s U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate and the Office of Global Partnerships, and the World Economic Forum, in collaboration with the U.S. Departments of Commerce and Energy.\nThe 35+ companies who make up the Coalition have made commitments to spur the commercialization of emerging technologies in this decade. The First Movers Coalition’s unique approach assembles ambitious corporate purchasing pledges across sectors that represent more than a third of global carbon emissions and span heavy industry and long-distance transportation.\nThe technologies needed to decarbonize these “hard-to-abate” sectors are not yet commercially available or competitive but are essential to bring to market by 2030 to enable their rapid scale-up to achieve net zero emissions economy-wide by 2050.\nIn addition to the commitments that the members have made, the members also pledge to work together to address roadblocks towards securing supply of required breakthrough technologies by 2030. The Coalition will pursue actions that tie together the members who have made demand signals with financial players, suppliers, and other value chain partners. In doing so, the FMC will further ensure that key technologies will be developed and power a net-zero future for years to come.


name: Global Memorandum of Understanding on Zero-Emission Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles (Global MOU)
alt_names:
Global Drive to Zero Program,Drive to Zero,Zero-Emission Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles (ZE-MHDVs); Global Agreement on Zero-Emission Trucks and Buses; Global Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for Zero-Emission Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles (ZE-MHDVs)

web_url:
https://globaldrivetozero.org/2021/11/09/landmark-commitment-at-cop26-countries-subnational-governments-vehicle-manufacturers-and-fleets-target-100-zero-emission-new-truck-and-bus-sales-by-2040-10-nov-2021/

description:
Representing a global response to climate emissions from trucks and buses and marking a turning point for the global transport sector, in November 2021 15 countries agreed to work together toward 100% zero-emission new truck and bus sales by 2040. Under the new Global Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for Zero-Emission Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles (ZE-MHDVs), Austria, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Scotland, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, Uruguay and Wales are setting an interim goal of 30% zero-emission new vehicle sales by 2030. In a coordinated effort, subnational governments – like Québec (Canada), and Telengana (India) – as well as top manufacturers and fleets like Scania, DHL, and Heineken are endorsing the MOU and agreeing to work collaboratively toward the same 2030 and 2040 goals. Participants in this coordinated global effort agree that zero-emission trucks and buses are essential to reducing transport emissions, mitigating climate change, improving air quality, reducing the use of fossil fuels and energy costs.


name: Climate Action Accelerator
web_url: https://climateactionaccelerator.org/
description:
Climate Action Accelerator is a not-for-profit initiative based in Geneva that aims to mobilize a critical mass of high-impact social organizations—particularly in the humanitarian aid, health, and education sectors—to scale up climate solutions and radically transform their practices, thereby contributing to tipping entire sectors of society towards low-carbon, resilient, and sustainable models. Its mission is to empower these organizations to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by at least half by 2030, in alignment with the Paris Agreement, while enhancing their resilience through access to a specialized knowledge and resource hub. Additionally, the initiative encourages these entities to become champions of change within their own ecosystems, influencing peers and generating a ripple effect that accelerates the adoption of climate solutions globally. Acting as a radical catalyst for change, Climate Action Accelerator removes barriers to climate action, shares solutions as a universal common good, and fosters open collaboration across sectors, all under the principle that urgency and collective action are essential to keep global warming below 2°C and ensure a safe and just future for humanity.


name: Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism
web_url: https://www.unwto.org/the-glasgow-declaration-on-climate-action-in-tourism
description:
The Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism presents a unified framework for tourism stakeholders to accelerate climate action and contribute to the achievement of the goals set in the Paris Agreement. The Declaration operates as a voluntary commitment where signatories commit to support the global goals of halving emissions by 2030 and achieving Net Zero by 2050 at the latest; to develop climate action plans aligned with five pathways: measure, decarbonize, regenerate, collaborate, and finance; to report on an annual basis on progress achieved; and to work in a collaborate spirit to ensure knowledge transfer and scale-up impacts.


name: Railway Climate Responsibility Pledge
alt_names: Railway Climate Declaration,Low Carbon Rail Transport Challenge
web_url:
https://uic.org/sustainability/energy-efficiency-and-co2-emissions/railway-climate-responsibility-pledge

description:
At the UN Climate Summit in September 2014, UIC presented the Low Carbon Rail Transport Challenge – Technical Report. This provided a vision for the development of the railway sector at the global level as a sustainable and low carbon mode of transportation. The challenge included three sets of voluntary targets: to improve rail efficiency, to decarbonise electricity supply, and to achieve a more sustainable balance of transport modes. During the 2015 COP21 event, ‘Train to Paris’, the first ‘Railway Climate Responsibility’ pledge was presented to high-level representatives of the United Nations. The Climate Responsibility pledge was signed by more than 60 UIC members, representing most of global rail activity.\n\nIn 2019, UIC took the pledge one step further by aligning its 2050 CO2 emissions target to achieve the Paris Agreement. The Railway Climate Responsibility Pledge 2019 is an extension to the Pledge signed in 2015. \n\nSignatories of the pledge: 1) Acknowledge the critical importance to take immediate action for a more sustainable future; 2) Recognise the central role of railways in the fight against climate change; 3) As a member of the worldwide community of railway operators and infrastructure managers, commit to take a leading role in the actions to mitigate climate change, by reducing their company’s carbon footprint and supporting a shift towards a more sustainable balance of transport modes.\n\nIn order to achieve this, signatories commit to reduce their company’s specific energy consumption and CO2 emission, and through this contribute to the UIC “Low Carbon Rail Transport Challenge”, presented in 2014 at the United Nations Climate Summit, and to the Rail Climate Responsibility Pledge, signed in 2015; Carbon Neutrality by 2050; Contribute to United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).


name: Africa Carbon Markets Initiative (ACMI)
alt_names: ACMI
web_url: https://africacarbonmarkets.org/
description:
The Africa Carbon Markets Initiative (ACMI) was launched at COP27 in Egypt, by a coalition of organisations focused on high integrity climate impact, clean energy, and sustainable development, to accelerate the growth of Africa’s voluntary carbon markets.\n\nThe initiative was launched by the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP), Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) with support from the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions. It is led by a 13-person steering committee of African leaders and carbon market experts.\n\nACMI aims to help shape and harness the potential for carbon markets in Africa. Its focus is to capture more of Africa’s potential in carbon markets by addressing the challenges to voluntary carbon market growth and building the foundations for a thriving voluntary carbon market ecosystem in Africa by 2030.\n\nThis initiative will focus not only on driving decarbonization activities but also on driving economic development by supporting energy access, scaling the clean energy transition, protecting forests, improving agriculture, and creating new income sources.


name: Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM) Initiative
alt_names: NZAM
web_url: https://www.netzeroassetmanagers.org/signatories/
description:
The Net Zero Asset Managers initiative is an international group of asset managers committed, consistent with their fiduciary duty to their clients and beneficiaries, to supporting the goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or sooner, in line with global efforts to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius; and to supporting investing aligned with net zero emissions by 2050 or sooner. It is an initiative designed to mobilise action by the asset management industry that demonstrates leading practice in driving the transition to net zero and delivers the ambitious action and investment strategies that will be necessary to achieve the goal of net zero emissions. It also provides a forum to share best practice and overcome barriers to aligning investments to that net zero goal.\n\nThe Net Zero Asset Managers initiative launched in December 2020 and aims to support the asset management industry to commit to a goal of net zero emissions in order to mitigate financial risk and to maximise long-term value of assets. \n\nThe initiative is endorsed by Investor Agenda and governed by six investor networks, also referred to as the ‘Network Partners’. The Steering Committee, made up of the Network Partners’ CEOs, is responsible for the coordination and implementation of the initiative, which includes ensuring that relevant support is provided to signatories to enable best practice implementation of the commitment.\n\nThe initiative is open to any asset manager globally that is also a member of one of the Network Partner networks. 


name: Paris Aligned Asset Owners (PAAO)
alt_names: PAAO
web_url: https://www.parisalignedassetowners.org/
description:
Paris Aligned Asset Owners are a global group of 57 asset owners, with over $3.3 trillion in assets. Consistent with their fiduciary obligations to clients and beneficiaries to avoid financial risk and to maximize long-term value of assets they have made individual commitments to transition their investments to achieve net zero portfolio GHG emissions by 2050, or sooner, drawing on the Net Zero Investment Framework to deliver these commitments. \n\nAsset owners commit to: 1) Transitioning their investments to achieve net zero portfolio GHG emissions by 2050, or sooner; 2) Implementing this commitment with the aim of achieving real economy emissions reductions and undertaking a comprehensive set of actions available to investors, drawing on the Paris Aligned Investment Initiative’s Net Zero Investment Framework; 3) Setting objectives and targets, including an interim target for 2030 or sooner for reducing Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions associated with their portfolios and setting a target for increasing investment in climate solutions, consistent with a fair share of the 50% global reduction in CO2 identified as a requirement in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change special report on global warming of 1.5°C; 4) Where offsets are necessary where there are no technologically and/or financially viable alternatives to eliminate emissions, investing in long-term carbon removals; 5) Ensure any direct and collective policy advocacy they undertake support policy and regulation relevant for achieving global net zero emissions by 2050 or sooner; 6) Implementing a stewardship and engagement strategy, with clear voting policy that is consistent with an objective for all assets in the portfolio to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 or sooner; 7) Engaging with asset managers, credit rating agencies, auditors, stock exchanges, proxy advisers, investment consultants, and data and service providers to ensure that funds, products and services available to investors are consistent with achieving global net zero emissions by 2050 or sooner; 8) Setting a target and reducing their operational (Scope 1 and 2) emissions in line with achieving global net zero emissions by 2050, or sooner; 9) Disclosing objectives and targets, and publishing a clear Investor Climate Action Plan for achieving these goals as soon as possible, no later than one year from making this commitment, and reviewing and updating targets every five years or sooner; 10) Reporting annually on the strategy and actions implemented and progress towards achieving objectives and targets, and in line with the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recommendations.


name: African Alliance for Sustainable Cities and Built Environment
web_url: https://africanalliance.build/
description:
The African Alliance for Sustainable Cities and Built Environments is developed by the Africa Regional Network of the World Green Building Council. \n\nThe World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) catalyses the uptake of sustainable built environments for everyone, everywhere. Their mission is to transform the building and construction sector across three strategic areas: climate action, health & wellbeing, and resources & circularity. They are a global action network comprised of around 70 Green Building Councils around the globe. As members of the UN Global Compact, they work with businesses, organisations and governments to drive the ambitions of the Paris Agreement and UN Global Goals for Sustainable Development. Through a systems change approach, their network is leading the industry towards a net zero carbon, healthy, equitable and resilient built environment.\nWorldGBCS Africa Regional Network is made up of 15GBCs (Cameroon, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia, and Uganda) who are responding to these challenges and opportunities on the ground.


name: Food and Agriculture for Sustainable Transformation (FAST)
alt_names: FAST
web_url: https://www.fao.org/food-agriculture-sustainable-transformation-partnership/en
description:
Sustainable agricultural systems offer many opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Implementation of climate resilient agrifood systems requires political will, international cooperation, generation, and exchange of knowledge and best practices, as well as financial resources to support producers and value chain actors across the world to operate the necessary transformations. Recent assessments show that availability and access to climate finance at both farm and country levels remains largely insufficient. Addressing this need, the aspirational goal of the Food and Agriculture for Sustainable Transformation (FAST) is to implement concrete actions that would result in improving the quantity and quality of climate finance contributions to transform agriculture and food systems by 2030, to support adaptation and maintain a 1.5-degree pathway whilst supporting food and economic security. The FAST initiative will be a multi-stakeholder partnership acting as an accelerator to transform agrifood systems to deliver triple wins: for people, for climate and for nature. FAST is designed as a catalyst, building on ongoing global and regional initiatives and coalitions to drive effective actions, and avoiding duplication.


name: Action on Water, Adaptation and Resilience (AWARe)
alt_names: AWARe
web_url: https://cop27.eg/#/presidency/initiative/aware
description:
The Action on Water, Adaptation and Resilience (AWARe) initiative will catalyse inclusive cooperation to address water as a key to climate change adaptation and its co-benefits, as well as resilience. It aims at offering transitional adaptation solutions for planet and people, starting with the worlds most vulnerable communities and ecosystems, including water scarce countries.\n\nWater is essential for the full enjoyment of life and all human rights. It is critical to achieve the highest attainable standard of human health, as well as food, livelihoods, and ecosystems security. It is a key element of people’s social and cultural well-being and contributes to sustainable development. The Global Water Crisis is currently affecting billions of people worldwide and is projected to be further aggravated by increasing demand, changing water availability and an increasing impact of floods and droughts, which calls for greater international cooperation.\n\nThe AWARe initiative will build on and interlink the Water and Climate Coalition, the Adaptation Action Coalition as well as the Marrakesh Partnership Climate Action Pathway Water and contribute to the goal on adaptation. The AWARe initiative is also set to contribute to the successful outcome of the 2023 UN Conference on Water.\n\nSummit/ Mobilization process: UNFCCC COP27, Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt (2022).


name: African Cities Water Adaptation Fund (ACWA Fund)
alt_names: ACWA Platform
web_url: https://www.wri.org/initiatives/urban-water-resilience-africa/acwa-fund
description:
The African Cities Water Adaptation Fund (ACWA Fund) uses an integrated approach to finance innovative urban water resilience solutions at scale, with the aim of leveraging at least USD 5 billion in funding and financing to implement strategic and innovative projects in 100 African cities by 2032.\n\nWRI is working with partners, including the African Center for Cities, ICLEI Africa, WaterAid, Resilient Cities Network, Arup, Cap-Net UNDP along with a strong steering committee with representation from key financial institutions and private sector investors, to develop a one-stop shop for African cities, offering full project lifecycle support.\n\nThe ACWA Fund will support local leaders to utilize the latest knowledge and resources to understand climate-water risks and socioeconomic impacts; identify, prioritize and prepare projects; structure deals and connect to grants and capital; and scale delivery by standardizing project development manuals, deals and contracts.\n\nThe African Cities Water Adaptation Platform (ACWA Platform) is a coalition of cities and partners including research institutes, civil society actors, development agencies, national governments, businesses, private sector investment groups, national banks, professional consultancies and associations joining forces to advance urban water resilience in Africa.\n\nThe ACWA Platform aims to coordinate, align, harmonize and scale existing programs, expertise and solutions across a wide network of partners to accelerate advocacy and implementation of new solutions to build resilient water systems in cities. Building on existing work in six African cities, the platform partners with city champions to overcome water challenges through research, planning and analysis on urban water resilience pathways; providing technical assistance and capacity-building support to identify, design, finance and implement innovative solutions; and leveraging collective action to improve the enabling environment for mature water resilience programs.\n\nThe African Cities Water Adaptation Fund (ACWA Fund) is the key funding and financing instrument of the platform, with the target of leveraging USD 5 billion to scale urban water resilience solutions to 100 African cities by 2032.\n\nDeveloped through deep engagement with a diverse group of institutions and individuals, the ACWA Platform is founded on a set of strategic priorities and principles, as identified in the 2030 Joint Agenda for Urban Water Resilience in Africa, and a strong call for implementation.


name: Roof Over Our Heads Campaign
web_url:
https://climatechampions.unfccc.int/roof-over-our-heads-delivering-resilient-affordable-low-carbon-homes-for-2bn-people-by-2050/

description:
A new campaign that aims to improve by 2050 the lives of 2 billion climate vulnerable people living in informal settlements will be launched at COP27 today.\n\nRoof Over Our Heads (ROOH) was conceived out of a recognition of a collective failure to address the lack of access to safe and decent houses for the most vulnerable communities.\n\nThe campaign will seek to implement a system of solutions from the ground up, beginning with the poorest and most vulnerable neighbourhoods. The idea is to demonstrate that larger volumes of resources can move with ease to small projects.\n\nThis grassroots approach challenges the notion of norms and standards to demonstrate incremental upgrading as a robust option to fully reconstruct houses for the poorest.\n\nIt will also explore decision making which puts women’s collectives at the centre of solutions, and where peer-to-peer learning across cities, national regions and continents is possible on the basis of evidence and sharing of solutions.


name: Enhancing Nature-based Solutions (NbS) for Climate Transformation (ENACT)
alt_names: ENACT,Sharm el Sheikh Partnership for NbS
web_url: https://enactpartnership.org
description:
The ENACT Partnership works to accelerate collective global efforts to address climate change, land and ecosystem degradation, and biodiversity loss through Nature-based Solutions (NbS).\n\nThe Partnership’s aims include to: 1) Bring coherence to and strengthen collaboration between existing partnerships and initiatives working on different areas of NbS; 2) Amplify and support accelerated implementation of current and new partners’ NbS commitments through documenting, profiling, and promoting promising practices and success stories as well as challenges to be overcome; 3) Facilitate NbS policy dialogue to inform negotiations across the Rio Conventions; 4) Build a united, collective narrative of the global value and impact of NbS, including through the publication of an annual State of NbS report for the COP Presidencies.\n\nThe ENACT partnership will also function as an enabler and accelerator of progress towards multilaterally established global targets, such as the UN Decade on Restoration, the proposed 30×30 target under the CBD Global Biodiversity Framework, and the G20 Global Initiative on Land Degradation under the UNCCD. ENACT will work in close alignment with the implementation of UNEP/EA.5/Res.5 and the upcoming intergovernmental consultations on: 1) compilation of examples of best practices in NbS; 2) assessment of proposals, criteria standards and guidelines to build a common understanding of NbS; 3) identification of financing options for NbS, particularly for developing countries.\n\nENACT will work in close alignment with the implementation of UNEP/EA.5/Res.5 and the upcoming intergovernmental consultations on: 1) compilation of examples of best practices in NbS; 2) assessment of proposals, criteria standards and guidelines to build a common understanding of NbS; and 3) identification of financing options for NbS, particularly for developing countries.\nThe ENACT partnership (previously under the working title “Sharm el Sheikh Partnership for NbS”) was developed in a collaborative process, building on a stakeholder consultation workshop in Cairo in September 2022 that brought together over 60 participants. The draft concept note underwent open peer review.


name: Beat the Heat: Nature for Cool Cities Challenge
web_url: https://coolcoalition.org/pilot-projects/nature-for-cool-cities-challenge/
description:
Cities are warming twice as fast as the global average, and it is imperative the world scales up solutions to tackle dangerous urban heat. The Nature for Cool Cities Challenge seeks to catalyze this goal by supporting a cohort of global south cities committed to developing and implementing nature-based solutions to deliver on heat resilience and cooling benefits.\n\nUrban nature-based solutions (NbS) are a powerful tool to cool cities and reduce extreme heat risks for urban-dwellers around the world. The cooling benefits of NbS are well documented, but they need to be better recognised and leveraged to accelerate and scale up investment and implementation. The Challenge’s global objectives are: Demonstrate urban nature-based solutions’ ability to mitigate the urban heat island effect, avoid emissions, and reduce energy demand Drive finance for replication and upscaling. This sends a demand signal to project developers and financiers Challenge participants (municipalities, groups of municipalities, or regional governments) will pledge to increase or enhance the proportion of high-quality nature-based cooling solutions within their cities by 2030, with demonstrable progress by 2025. To achieve the pledge, Challenge participants set a quantitative target (i.e., the area or percent of NbS to increase), a funding target (i.e., the amount of budgetary resources they will spend on NbS), and at least three implementation (policy, finance, or technical) actions.


name: Low Carbon Transport for Urban Sustainability (LOTUS) Initiative
alt_names: LOTUS initiative
web_url: https://cop27.eg/#/presidency/initiative/lotus
description:
Sustainable low carbon mobility is a high priority for all governments, especially in the Global South. National and sub-national governments are looking to develop transport systems that improve equity, ensure access, enhance prosperity, contribute to health and well-being and ameliorate the adverse environmental impacts of transport emissions. Over half of the worlds population live in cities, which account for 70% of global emissions. Within cities, transport makes up a third of all emissions. As urbanization accelerates in the Global South, improving urban transport and mobility is becoming an increasingly salient lever to deliver on the above outcomes.\n\nTransforming urban mobility systems across geographies is a momentous task. Efforts to decarbonize specific transport modes are already underway, and some cities are demonstrating what is possible, but widespread systemic transformation is now needed. Under the leadership of the Egyptian COP27 Presidency and following a multi-stakeholder consultation process with the global transport community – including NGOs, think tanks, UN system entities, multilateral development banks, and member states – 5 systemic challenges in the urban mobility landscape were identified: 1) Financing gap: investment in Global South projects is often seen as unattractive due to small ticket sizes and (perceived) unproven/weak return on investment. Funders cite a lack of robust data which hinders their ability to make sound financial decisions. Public-private collaboration to aggregate demand and pool funding for infrastructure projects is limited; 2) Weak policymaking and implementation capability: political leadership to deliver policies that accelerate sustainable urban mobility projects is sometimes lacking. Even when there is political will, there is often a lack of technical capabilities to plan and execute sustainable transport interventions; 3) Lack of policy coherence and clear, credible targets: Transport plans are not always aligned to broader climate policy architecture e.g., UNFCCC Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), Long Terms Strategies (LTSs), Global Stocktake (GST). Few Global South countries have articulated long-term vision and set concrete and ambitious targets making it difficult for the broader transport ecosystem to coalesce around a common goal; 4) Difficulty integrating and regulating informal transport: Informal transport operators play a significant role in serving the demand for shared mobility in the Global South but tend to be poorly integrated into mobility systems, and governments and regulators find it difficult to support and implement decarbonisation plans; 5) Siloed thinking around modes: Legacy efforts have emphasized a modal and operatorcentric approach to decarbonize transport systems. The lack of an integrated, systems view means that some modes have been prioritized over others, while transversal enablers of change (e.g., scaled up public & private sector financing, procurement at scale, consistent and high-quality data, multi-stakeholder collaboration, etc) have been overlooked.


name: Sustainable Urban Resilience for the Next Generation (SURGe) Initiative
alt_names: (SURGe) Initiative
web_url: https://www.cities-and-regions.org/surge/
description:
What is the Sustainable Urban Resilience for the Next Generation (SURGe) Initiative? The SURGe Initiative has been developed under the leadership of the COP27 Presidency in collaboration with UN-Habitat and facilitated by ICLEI. It is dedicated to connecting the local, national and global levels with the vision to achieve global climate goals by using effective multilevel governance to transform cities to be healthy, sustainable, just, inclusive, low-emission and resilient urban systems for a better urban future for all. To achieve this vision, the SURGe Initiative has the objective of equipping cities to accelerate local climate action and building more strategically on cities and sustainable urbanization as allies to help deliver the targets of the Paris Agreements and the SDGs. SURGe was officially launched at the Ministerial Meeting on Urbanization and Climate Change at COP27. It has been endorsed by over 180 global partners. \n\nThe SURGe objective is achieved by connecting local, national and global levels for climate action and delivering through five integrated tracks and track partners: Buildings and housing, urban energy, urban waste and consumption, urban transport and urban water. \n\nSURGe is open for endorsement and support to a global community, including national and local governments, city networks, academia, the private sector and international organizations. Partners can support setting up national SURGe Secretariats, implementing climate action in cities and helping spread the word on the importance of cities to achieve the Paris Agreement!


name: Zero Emission Vehicles Emerging Market Campaign (ZEV-EM-C)
alt_names: ZEV-EM-C
web_url: https://www.wbcsd.org/actions/zero-emission-vehicle-emerging-markets-initiative/
description:
The US launches the Zero Emission Vehicles Emerging Market Campaign (ZEV-EM-C), a one-year campaign that seeks to accelerate zero-emission passenger vehicle deployment in emerging markets. The campaign will highlight private sector contributions and foster dialogue between emerging markets and major companies to accelerate private investment to achieve ambitious ZEV deployment goals.\n\nWhile developed markets have been at the forefront of ZEV deployment with well-established infrastructures, stricter government regulations and policy incentives, the adoption of these technologies has been progressing at a much slower pace in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). The ZEV Emerging Markets Initiative (ZEV-EMI), launched jointly by WBCSD and the U.S., U.K. and governments under the ZEVTC, aims to elevate cooperation between governments and businesses in EMDEs to accelerate the transition to ZEVs.  


name: The Collective for Clean Transport Finance
web_url:
https://www.wbcsd.org/news/global-consortium-of-governments-industry-and-investors-spearheads-innovative-investment-strategy-for-zero-emission-vehicles/

description:
Aims to create the tools to change the risk profiles of investment in zero-emission transport. The Collective is launched by five leading international organizations and the High-Level Champions as a strategic collaboration, and its membership will continue expanding over the coming year.\n\nSummit/ Mobilisation process: UNFCCC COP27, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt (2022)


name: Global Waste Initiative 50 by 2050
web_url: https://cop27.eg/#/presidency/initiative/globalwaste
description:
In this year’s CoP27 Presidency, the Government of the Arab Republic of Egypt will launch, a global initiative on waste management during the event and leverage 180+ countries to take voluntary engagements at the international level for Africa. The holistic coalition sets the ambition to treat and recycle at least 50% of the solid waste produced in Africa by 2050.\n\nTo achieve the 50 by 2050 target, a 28-year roadmap will be provided to endorsing stakeholders as well as a consolidated pipeline of projects for the five working groups. Upon achieving these two milestones, a detailed assessment of the investment amount required will be provided to address the relevant areas such as infrastructure, capacity building, setting up a regulatory framework, digitalization and automation of processes, etc.\n\nSummit/ Mobilisation process: UNFCCC COP27, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt (2022).


name: Climate Responses for Sustaining Peace (CRSP)
alt_names: CRSP
web_url: https://cop27.eg/#/presidency/initiative/CRSP
description:
Climate Responses for Sustaining Peace (CRSP)  is proposed by COP 27 Presidency with the aim of ensuring that integrated climate responses contribute to sustainable peace and development in line with national ownership and context specificity. The initiative aims to contribute to the realization of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and\nAgenda 2063: the Africa We Want, as well as to the implementation of the Africas Silencing the Guns initiative, and the African Climate Change and Resilient Development Strategy and Action Plan (2022-2032).\n\nThe initiative aims at achieving the following objectives: Strengthening the Climate Adaptation and Peacebuilding Nexus; Sustaining Peace through Climate- Resilient Food Systems; Advancing Durable Solutions to the Climate-Displacement Nexus; Accelerating Climate Finance for Sustaining Peace.\n\nSummit/ Mobilisation process: UNFCCC COP27, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt (2022).


name: African Women’s Climate Adaptive Priorities (AWCAP) Initiative
alt_names: AWCAP
web_url: https://cop27.eg/#/presidency/initiative/womencap
description:
The goal of the initiative is to consolidate and intensify the efforts to ensure women’s inclusion in the just transition to a climate-resilient future. The African Women’s CAP Initiative is proposed based on 3 of the actionable areas: Promote gender sensitive perspectives within adaptation, mitigation,and responses; Leverage opportunities for women within the just transition to the green economy and green consumption habits and within blue economy in the context of achieving sustainable development; Promote Educational and Behavioral Change on women and climate change. \n\nOverall Objectives\nIncrease cooperation among African member states: through creating a nexus that includes presidents of women machineries/ministers and relevant environment ministers. The events will bring together a joint focus on the topics of women within the adaptation and mitigation in water, energy, and agriculture sectors.\n\nEnhance existing structures and frameworks: through promoting knowledge production, enhancing the provision of climate information technologies, data collection, research, exchanges of experiences, and mainstreaming women across the climate governance.\n Strengthen commitments for investing in women: through increasing investments in capacity building programs to support women in the different levels; from the education (e.g., STEM) to the labor market, supporting women-led climate MSMEs, enhancing women’s access to financial support and building their capacities to prepare investable climate projects.\n\nCapitalize on existing Public-Private-Partnerships: through promoting institutional transformation models, e.g. Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs), within private sector companies working in relevant fields to ensure gender equality and women’s empowerment.\n Promote gender sensitive social protection policies and measures: to accompany just transition pathways.\n\nSummit/ Mobilisation process: UNFCCC COP27, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt (2022).


name: Friends of Greening National Investment Plans Initiative
web_url: https://cop27.eg/#/presidency/initiative/friends
description:
The Initiative aims at assisting in the shaping the process of planning and design of economic policies in a manner that factors in the impact of climate change, quantify the efforts made in mitigation and adaptation, and identify the gaps and the support needed.\n\nThe initiative intends to propose a set of guidelines, criteria, and policy advice, to expedite the implementation of their NDCs to achieve the objectives of the UNFCCC and its Paris Agreement, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty.\n\nThe members of the initiative should advocate for, coordinate and streamline policies facilitating the transition of their national investment plans and economic policies towards low emissions development, and more climate resilient just pathways, while considering their respective capabilities and the different national circumstances.\n\nThis effort shall also consider the multifaceted challenges of COVID-19, climatic risks and natural disasters, following a participatory approach to promote a sustainable and climate sensitive recovery, whilst ensuring that the key principle of “Leaving no one and no place behind” are put in place and that distributive impacts of climate change are forecasted integrated in different stages of planning shaping economic policies.\n\nSummit/ Mobilisation process: UNFCCC COP27, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt (2022).\n


name: Innovative Finance for the Amazon, Cerrado and Chaco (IFACC)
web_url: https://www.ifacc-initiative.org/home
description:
Innovative Finance for the Amazon, Cerrado and Chaco (IFACC) is a new initiative from the United Nations Environment Programme, the Nature Conservancy and the Tropical Forest Alliance. We serve as the “go-to” team for banks, companies and investors seeking to expand innovative finance for deforestation/conversion-free beef and soy in these regions.\nIFACC is a new initiative from the United Nations Environment Programme, the Nature Conservancy and the Tropical Forest Alliance. We serve as the “go-to” team for banks, companies and investors seeking to expand innovative finance for deforestation/conversion-free beef and soy in these regions. We want to scale innovative financial mechanisms—including farm loan products, farmland investment funds, corporate debt instruments and capital markets offerings—and help farmers implement proven business models to supply the global market without further conversion of the Amazon, Cerrado and Chaco ecosystems.\n\nSummit/ Mobilisation process: UNFCCC COP26, Glasgow, Scotland (2021).


name: Finance Sector Deforestation Action / Deforestation commitment
web_url: https://www.iigcc.org/finance-sector-deforestation-action
description:
Tackling forest deforestation related to forest-risk agricultural commodities represents a key opportunity and imperative for the financial sector toward meeting net zero commitments through engaging with key investees and clients to halt deforestation across soft commodity supply chains, while financing and investing in nature-based solutions. Finance Sector Deforestation Action (FSDA) is a results-driven collaborative of financial institutions that unites signatory organisations around a shared engagement approach to tackling deforestation, creating essential convergence across other climate and nature-related initiatives.\nOver 35 financial institutions with more than (US) $8.9 trillion in assets under management are committed to work on eliminating agricultural commodity-driven deforestation risks in their investment and lending portfolios by 2025. To read the commitment letter, please click here.\n\nThis investor-led initiative, Financial Sector Deforestation Action, is supported by a collaborative effort from leading organizations and individuals at the intersection of finance and conservation (Nature4Climate Secretariat, Conservation International, Global Canopy, Global Optimism, High-Level Climate Champions team, WEF Tropical Forest Alliance).\n\nSummit/ Mobilisation process: UNFCCC COP26, Glasgow, Scotland (2021).


name: Restore Africa Programme
web_url: https://www.evergreening.org/restoreafrica/#
description:
The Restore Africa programme aims to restore more than two million hectares of land and directly support two million smallholder farms in the next five years across six African countries – Kenya, Ethiopia, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. The programme is an innovative community-led model that connects the local efforts of farmers on the ground with new revenue streams from global carbon markets.\n\nBuilding on the existing investments of smallholder farms and NGOs to restore degraded ecosystems, the Global EverGreening Alliance will support farmers to adopt regenerative and other sustainable land management practices that sequester GHG emissions at scale.\n\nSummit/ Mobilisation process: UNFCCC COP26, Glasgow, Scotland (2021).


name: Big Nature Impact Fund
web_url: https://finance.earth/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/250612-UK-Nature-relaunch-Press-Release-vF.pdf
description:
The creation of the Big Nature Impact Fund forms part of a wider effort by the government to halt the decline in nature by 2030. Last year, the UK Treasury Department said it was aiming to raise at least £500m in private finance to support nature’s recovery in England every year by 2027, rising to more than £1bn by 2030.\n\nSummit/ Mobilisation process: UNFCCC COP27, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt (2022).\n


name: Forest, People, Climate
alt_names: FPC
web_url: https://forestspeopleclimate.org/
description:
Forests, People, Climate (FPC) is a collaborative of philanthropic donors and civil society organizations seeking to halt and reverse tropical deforestation while delivering just, sustainable development. The initiative focuses on equitable and enduring solutions that safeguard tropical forests and support those defending them, in particular Indigenous Peoples and local communities.\nThrough this collaboration, experts, non-governmental organizations, and donors partner to identify the strategic priorities that must be addressed to end and reverse deforestation, mobilize the funding for those priorities, and connect with and strengthen broader networks of partners to move funding to support the work.\nFPC focuses on ensuring funding flows to where it is most needed for success, in particular to Indigenous, grassroots, and community-based organizations in tropical forest countries.


name: Blue Mediterranean Partnership
web_url:
https://www.ebrd.com/home/news-and-events/news/2022/ebrd-eib-and-ufm-with-eu-support-launch-blue-mediterranean-partnership.html

description:
The Blue Mediterranean Partnership intends to create a new financial vehicle, pooling contributions from donors and beneficiary countries in the Southern Neighbourhood, to provide both capital expenditure and technical assistance grants for sustainable blue economy projects, that will help close an estimated USD6 billion investment gap in the next 8 years.\nThe Blue Mediterranean Partnership is the partners’ response to the commitments made at EU level to fully integrate the blue economy into the Green Deal, the priorities outlined in the EU’s new Agenda for the Mediterranean, the Union for the Mediterranean ministerial declaration on sustainable blue economy and the UfM blue economy agenda as well as to the environmental challenges faced by the Mediterranean region. This partnership has received wide political support, including from the European Commission.


name: The Mangrove Breakthrough
web_url: https://www.mangrovealliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/THE-MANGROVE-BREAKTHROUGHv1-2.pdf
description:
The Mangrove Breakthrough is a science-based, measurable, and achievable target for non-state actors and governments to collectively restore and protect mangroves at the scale needed to secure the future of these vital coastal forests. This will be achieved by driving and catalyzing financial flows to activate proven solutions and mobilize action on the ground for the protection and restoration of mangrove ecosystems.\nThe Breakthrough aims to catalyze the financial support needed to scale proven solutions by working to channel finance to the ground through the Global Mangrove Alliance: a world-wide collaboration between NGOs, governments, academics and communities working together towards a global vision for accelerating change and building a host of opportunities for coastal peoples and biodiversity around the planet.\nNote: the provided link to the website of the initiative is no longer active. Please find more information on the initiative (here)(https://www.mangrovebreakthrough.com).


name: The High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People
alt_names: HAC for N&P
web_url: https://www.hacfornatureandpeople.org/
description:
The High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People (HAC for N&P) is an intergovernmental group of more than 115 countries united by a shared ambition to implement the global goal of effectively conserving and managing at least 30 percent of the world’s land and ocean by 2030. The HAC for N&P is open to all countries recognized under the United Nations, as well as Subnational governments of current or soon-to-be members.


name: The Initiative on Climate Action and Nutrition
alt_names: I-CAN
web_url:
https://www.gainhealth.org/resources/reports-and-publications/initiative-climate-action-and-nutrition-i-can

description:
I-CAN is a multistakeholder, multisectoral global flagship initiative that will help foster collaboration to accelerate transformative action to address the critical nexus of climate change and nutrition. \nThe initiative will be officially launched at the “Adaptation and Agriculture” thematic day during the 27th session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change\n(UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP27) in Sharm El- Sheikh, 6-18 November 2022.\nI-CAN will leverage the current heightened global attention on food systems\ntransformation and deliver technical and high-level support from parties, UN agencies,\nNGOs, and the private sector. The focus in on win-win policies and actions that work to reduce climate change and improve nutrition, particularly for children and vulnerable groups. Currently less than 12% of national policies worldwide consider climate, biodiversity and\nnutrition; only 32% of National Action Plans (NAPs) included adaptation actions related to\nfood safety and nutrition; and few NDCs commit to actions that aim to tackle climate and\nnutrition.\nThe aspirational goal of I-CAN is to support Member States in delivering climate change\nadaptation and mitigation policy action which simultaneously improves nutrition and\ntriggers transformative action to deliver healthy diets from sustainable food systems thus\ncontributing to achieving the global targets for SDG 13, SDG3 and SDG2. The inclusion of\nclimate action and nutrition in the NDCs and NAPs is an important indicator.\nThe initiate is coordinated by Egypt as COP27 Presidency, in partnership with WHO, FAO, other UN agencies and partners such as GAIN. 


name: Net Zero Investment Consultants Initiative (NZICI)
web_url:
https://www.unpri.org/climate-change/leading-investment-consultants-form-global-initiative-to-push-for-net-zero/8549.article

description:
The Net Zero Investment Consultants Initiative (NZICI) is a new commitment from some of the world’s most prominent investment consultants to align their operations and advisory services with the 1.5 degree emissions trajectory outlined in the Paris Agreement. Its twelve signatories at the time of launch are responsible for advising on assets exceeding USD 10 trillion. This commitment from investment consultants adds strength to existing investor leadership via the Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance, the Net Zero Asset Manager Initiative, and other groups that the PRI works with on this important issue.\nNote: the provided link to the website of the initiative is no longer active. Please find more information on the initiative (here)(https://public.unpri.org/net-zero-investment-consultants-initiative-nzici/13190.article).


name: Intelligent Climate & Eco-Civilization Initiative
web_url: https://iceci.net/
description:
Intelligent Climate & Eco-Civilization Initiative (ICEC) was launched in 2023 at the COP28 China Side Event held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The initiative was co-initiated by the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Lvdoya. ICEC aims to foster greater climate action, climate action transparency, collaboration, and cross-cutting between entities in Asia.\nThis initiative aims to mobilize partners to take action toward carbon neutrality, promote in-depth interactions and collaboration between Chinese enterprises and the international community and share information across multiple parties and integrating experiences and knowledge of urban governance. \nThe initiative’s goals include: 1) promoting greater climate action disclosure and transparency from local and regional governments in China, including supporting these entities to disclose climate action information to the GCAP portal; 2) increase participation of representatives of sub-national government (mainly focusing on China) at annual COP events; 3) facilitate dialogue between international organizations (including the UNFCCC) and Chinese sub-national governments, including through roundtables, events and forums.\nNote: the provided link to the website of the initiative is no longer active. 


name: Race to Zero for Universities and Colleges
web_url: https://www.educationracetozero.org/
description:
Race to Zero for Universities and Colleges is a partnership initiative between EAUC – the Alliance for Sustainability Leadership in Education and UNEP, with EAUC acting as secretariat. Established in 2019, and joining as a Race to Zero Partner in June 2000, they have gained 1,115 signatories across the world from 77 countries who have committed to be net-zero by 2050 at the very latest. This represents nearly 11 million students globally.\nThe initiative advocates for young minds to be equipped with the knowledge, skills and capability to respond to the ever-growing challenges of climate change. They also support universities and colleges by providing tools, resources and case studies. The initiatives vision is a post-16 education system that creates a world with sustainability at its heart.


name: Global Cooling Pledge
web_url: https://www.unep.org/resources/report/global-cooling-pledge
description:
The Global Cooling Pledge provides an opportunity to commit to sustainable cooling with concrete actions. An initiative of the United Arab Emirates as host of the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28), the Pledge is one of nine non-negotiated declarations, pledges, and charters that constitute key outcomes for the COP28 Presidential Action Agenda. \n\nIt aims to raise ambition and international cooperation through collective global targets to reduce cooling related emissions by 68% from today by 2050, significantly increase access to sustainable cooling by 2030, and increase the global average efficiency of new air conditioners by 50%. The emission targets draw on the modelling from the UNEP Cool Coalition report Global Cooling Watch 2023 Keeping it Chill: How to meet cooling demands while cutting emissions.


name: Declaration on Climate Relief, Recovery, and Peace
web_url: https://www.cop28.com/en/cop28-declaration-on-climate-relief-recovery-and-peace
description:
The Climate Relief, Recovery, and Peace Declaration is a voluntary commitment to increase climate adaptation efforts and access to finance for communities and countries threatened or affected by fragility or conflict, or facing high humanitarian needs and insecurity; to strengthen knowledge and programmatic solutions for climate action in such locations; and to foster collaboration across humanitarian, development, climate and peace actors to address the multi-dimensional challenges of climate change.


name: Net Zero Transition Charter
web_url: https://www.cop28.com/en/net-zero-accountability-charter
description:
The Charter serves to encourage organizations to make public net-zero emissions pledges and targets, underpinned by high integrity and quality, produce credible and transparent transition plans, and publish periodic, accurate, complete, and transparent reporting on their progress. By signing the Charter, private sector entities will certify their adherence or their commitment to adhere to the following: \n1) Publicly set 1.5 degree aligned, science-based, credible and transparent Net Zero 2050 and interim emissions reduction targets, either through a net-zero aligned national pledge or an internationally recognized net-zero initiative that holds members to account for their net-zero pledges, or individually following a commensurate scope and level of ambition with public, third-party validation of their pledge through a generally accepted science-based review process: those who have already made pledges as outlined above do not need to re-commit.\n2) Produce a credible net-zero transition plan, by or within one year after the conclusion of COP28.\n3) Publicly report annual GHG emissions and progress on their net-zero commitment and transition plan, including through high quality platforms that feed into the UNFCCC Global Climate Action Portal.\n4) Report on emission data and reduction pathways, validation done through self-attestation or an independent third party.


name: Utilities for Net Zero Alliance
alt_names: UNEZA
web_url: https://www.utilitiesfornetzero.org/
description:
The Utilities for Net Zero Alliance (UNEZA) was established at COP28 with the adoption of the UAE Declaration of Action. This Alliance unites leading global utilities and power companies with the aim of spearheading the development of grids that are ready for renewable energy, promoting clean energy solutions, and advancing electrification efforts. UNEZA operates under the guidance of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions, ensuring a focused and strategic approach to achieving a sustainable energy future.\n\nUNEZA’s Members and Partners recognize that the key to unlocking the utility sector’s global energy transition potential lies in the ability to deliberately target existing structural, regulatory, and financial impediments and challenges that may stand in the way of progress.\n\nMembers and Partners work proactively to address the barriers through global cooperation, knowledge development and public-private consultations facilitated by IRENA, and the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions and other Ecosystem Partners.


name: Podong Indigenous Peoples Initiative
web_url:
https://www.iucn.org/press-release/202312/podong-indigenous-peoples-initiative-co-designed-and-co-led-indigenous-peoples

description:
Indigenous leaders presented the four priorities of this co-led, co-designed initiative, which will: Facilitate the Indigenous-led design of direct funding approaches; scale-up direct investment of Indigenous-led conservation and climate actions; strengthen and build the capacity of Indigenous organisations to access, manage, and govern these investments; and promote Indigenous rights and leadership, particularly that of women and youth, in global biodiversity and climate policy spaces.


name: COP28 Action Agenda on Regenerative Landscapes
web_url:
https://www.wbcsd.org/Programs/Food-and-Nature/Food-Land-Use/COP28-Action-Agenda-Regenerative-Landscapes-accelerating-the-transition#:~:text=The%20COP28%20Action%20Agenda%20on%20Regenerative%20Landscapes%20aims%20to%20work,proofed%20food%20and%20agriculture%20systems.

description:
The COP28 Action Agenda on Regenerative Landscapes is a groundbreaking model of multi-stakeholder action on regenerative agriculture at landscape level. This flagship initiative, launched by the COP28 Presidency, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), and the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), with support from the UN Climate Change High Level Champions, brings together farmers, agribusinesses, financiers, and leading non-state actors to aggregate, accelerate, and amplify existing efforts and new commitments to transition large agricultural landscapes to regenerative practices by 2030.\n\nIt aims to aggregate, accelerate and amplify existing efforts and new commitments to transition large agricultural landscapes to regenerative landscapes by 2030. COP30 will represent a key milestone, where participants will be required to show progress across five key impact areas – soil health, GHG emissions, biodiversity, water and farmer livelihoods.\u202f Food value chain players, financiers, local governments and other stakeholders are invited to engage with the Action Agenda to:  \n- Foster transparency  \n- Gain access to partnerships  \n- Help to accelerate public-private collaborations  \n- Benefit from collaboration, knowledge and best practices sharing  \n- Gain access to financing  \n- Contribute to alignment towards a commonly accepted outcome framework  \n- Inspire other players by showcasing efforts and results achieved   


name: Taskforce on Net Zero Policy
web_url:
https://www.unpri.org/news-and-press/leading-international-agencies-form-taskforce-on-net-zero-policy-to-further-hleg-recommendations/11967.article

description:
The focus of the Taskforce is to ensure the credibility and accountability of 1.5°C-aligned net zero emissions commitments by non-state actors is underpinned with coherent policies and regulatory certainty, centering around three primary objectives:\n\n(1) Establishing a collaborative space that encourages the sharing of knowledge, practices, and insights among policymakers and regulators.\n(2) Providing research and technical support, particularly in areas which support the net zero transition in a way that is consistent with the HLEG recommendations and that also works for companies of all sizes and addresses the needs of middle and low income and the most vulnerable countries.\n(3) Identifying opportunities within regulatory frameworks that support the implementation of the HLEG recommendations.


name: Urban Nature Program
web_url: https://www.thegpsc.org/urban-nature-program
description:
The Urban Nature Program, will bring together a group of Lighthouse Cities to bolster nature-focused investments and integration in urban environments by providing financial and technical support to catalyse urban natural solutions.


name: Coalition for High Ambition Multi-Level Partnerships for Climate Action
alt_names: CHAMP
web_url:
https://www.cop28.com/en/cop28-uae-coalition-for-high-ambition-multilevel-partnerships-for-climate-action

description:
The Coalition for High Ambition Multilevel Partnerships (CHAMP) for Climate Action works in order to enhance cooperation, where applicable and appropriate, with our subnational governments in the planning, financing, implementation, and monitoring of climate strategies, including but not limited to Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) and Long Term Low-Emission Development Strategies (LT-LEDS), to maximise climate action, including through coalitions such as the NDC Partnership, with a view towards collectively pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, and increase adaptation and resilience. 


name: Climate Club
web_url: https://climate-club.org/
description:
Currently comprising 41 members and growing, the Climate Club was launched at COP28 as a leading high-ambition intergovernmental forum for exchange on accelerating climate action and industry decarbonisation. The objective of the Climate Club members is to support the effective implementation of the Paris Agreement and decisions thereunder.\n\nClimate Club members will share their assessments and best practices on ambitious and transparent mitigation policies and work towards a common understanding of the effectiveness and economic impact of such policies. The Climate Club’s initial focus is on the emission-intensive sectors steel and cement with the aim to scale up lead markets and to make decarbonised industrial production the default business case. Recognising that countries have different starting points and strategies, the Climate Club will foster cooperation to improve the enabling environment for industrial decarbonisation in emerging and developing economies.\n\nWhile focusing on exchange among governments, the Climate Club will engage relevant stakeholders and experts from academia, think tanks, civil society, and the private sector. It draws on their expertise, and elevates and complements the ongoing work of international organisations and initiatives that relates to its activities.


name: Indigenous Peoples and the Race to secure self-determined finance campaign
web_url: https://climatechampions.unfccc.int/system/indigenous-peoples-finance/
description:
Indigenous Peoples comprise less than 5 percent of the global population but protect more than 80 percent of its biodiversity. Their importance in climate solutions alongside their need to have access to resources to keep their self-determined climate actions are critical in the path to a just transition.When the rights of Indigenous Peoples are recognized, secured, and protected, rates of deforestation tend to be lower and carbon stocks tend to be higher than in forests managed by other actors. Secure rights for community forest guardians can also improve ecosystem integrity, protect biodiversity, and enhance public health. Despite this, less than 1 percent of funding currently reaches Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities to secure tenure rights and manage forests in tropical countries.\n\nRecognizing the importance of this, the Climate Champions Team gathered testimonies from leaders of alternative funding mechanisms. We asked fund leaders across the world to share their perspectives on how to leverage the financial system and explain the true impact of providing Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities with direct access to finance.\n\nThe “Indigenous Peoples and the Race to secure self-determined finance” campaign compiled the results of these interviews in an effort to share with the world that the climate finance system can be different – more equitable, coherent, flexible and effective – when we put the true leaders at the centre of the decision making processes and let them promote their self-determined actions.


name: Cement and Concrete Breakthrough
web_url: https://racetozero.unfccc.int/system/global-cement-industry/
description:
The Cement & Concrete Breakthrough initiative aims to make near-zero emission cement the preferred global market choice by 2030, with production and efficient use established in every world region. Co-led by Canada and the United Arab Emirates, and endorsed by over a dozen countries, the initiative focuses on rapidly decarbonizing the cement and concrete sector—a major emitter of industrial CO₂—through coordinated global action. Key focus areas include developing common definitions, standards, and certification for low-emission products; driving demand creation through green procurement and purchasing commitments; advancing collaboration, education, and innovation to scale up existing clean technologies; improving finance and investment access, especially in developing countries; and strengthening international coordination across stakeholders. The initiative is supported by a network of partners including CEM IDDI, IEA WPID, First Movers Coalition, Mission Possible Partnership, ConcreteZero, GCCA, UNIDO, and LeadIT, and is designed to deliver measurable progress by COP30.


name: Nature Solutions Finance Hub for Asia and the Pacific
alt_names: Nature Financing Initiative for Asia and the Pacific
web_url: https://www.adb.org/projects/57222-001/main
description:
This project will launch the Nature Solutions Finance (NSF) Hub to specifically focus on catalyzing finance into Nature-based Solutions (NbS) to support nature-based climate actions and biodiversity conservation. Its establishment will be an opportunity to develop innovative solutions to address the intertwined crises of nature and climate. The NSF Hubs goal is to increase investments in NbS projects across Asia and the Pacific by proactively developing scalable and bankable demonstration projects by creating a platform with practical NbS solutions centered around innovative finance approaches. It aims to do this through a partnership approach with global development entities in the nature space along with concessional fund sources who can work together with ADB under a focused roadmap of activities.


name: Legacy Landscapes Fund
alt_names: LLF
web_url: https://legacylandscapes.org/
description:
Legacy Landscapes Fund (LLF) was set up to guarantee long-term conservation funding for nature, climate, and people. We aim to source significant public and private funding to finance a diverse portfolio of 30+ outstanding protected areas by 2030. By effectively conserving these “legacy landscapes”, we protect biodiversity, promote climate resilience, and foster equitable development.\n\nLLF was established in late 2020 by the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development as an independent charitable foundation under German law.\n\nIts financial resources stem from public and private sources. In addition to funding from the German Government through the KfW Development Bank, NORAD, and the French Development Agency (Agence Française de Développement), each site needs to have a private match-funding partner who contributes at least 5 million USD. These are philanthropic partners or corporate partners.\n\nLLF aims to support conservation efforts in the Global South with long-term programme funding implemented by experienced NGOs.


name: Blue Action Fund
web_url: https://www.blueactionfund.org/
description:
Blue Action Fund was founded in 2016 by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) in conjunction with KfW Development Bank. Subsequently, the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), and Irish Aid became funding partners and Blue Action Fund is now one of the world’s largest public funders promoting marine conservation and sustainable livelihoods in coastal communities.\n\nBlue Action Fund recognises the ocean’s fundamental role in ensuring the health of our planet and the wellbeing of mankind. Our vision is of a carefully managed and sustainably used ocean full of abundant, healthy marine life providing major benefits to people and the environment. Our mission is to enhance the management and use of coastal and marine ecosystems to conserve marine biodiversity for future generations while improving the lives of local people today. We pursue that mission by making targeted grants to non-governmental organisations active in developing countries.


name: Global Fund for Coral Reefs
web_url: https://globalfundcoralreefs.org/
description:
The Global Fund for Coral Reefs (GFCR) provides grant funding and private capital to support sustainable interventions to save coral reefs and the communities that rely on them. Officially announced in September of 2020. The GFCR is a blended finance instrument to mobilise action and resources to protect and restore coral reef ecosystems. 


name: Great Blue Wall
alt_names: Moroni Declaration for Ocean and Climate Action in Africa
web_url: https://iucn.org/resources/brochure/great-blue-wall-initiative
description:
The Great Blue Wall is a Western Indian Ocean (WIO)-born, Africa- driven roadmap to achieve a nature- positive world by 2030. It aims at unlocking unprecedented nature-based recovery efforts through the establishment of a transformational movement. Its goal is to dramatically accelerate and upscale ocean conservation actions while enhancing socio-ecological resilience and the development of a regenerative blue economy by catalysing political leadership and financial support.


name: Global Alliance for Water and Climate’s Incubation Platform (GAWCIP)
alt_names: 100 water and climate projects for Africa
web_url: https://climateaction.unfccc.int/Initiatives?id=100_water_and_climate_projects_for_Africa
description:
The Paris Pact was launched on the opening day of the climate summit COP21. It was the starting point of a global momentum for the identification of solutions for climate adaptation and mitigation. Thus, a Global Alliances for Water and Climate (GAWC) was established at the COP22, within which a Global Alliance for Water and Climate’s Incubation Platform (GAWCIP) has been set up gathering international private, institutional and financial partners, with the support of French ministries of ecology and foreign affairs. This platform is based on key investments/projects dealing with enabling knowledge and soft infrastructures.\n\nAs part of this initiative, the 100 Water and Climate Projects for Africa initiative is a large-scale effort aimed at addressing the challenges related to water and climate change across the African continent. The main goal is to identify, fund, and support one hundred innovative projects that contribute to sustainable water management and climate change mitigation and adaptation. These projects cover various areas, such as access to clean drinking water, protection of water resources, climate resilience, and the promotion of sustainable agricultural practices. The initiative seeks to mobilize financial and technical resources, as well as strengthen collaboration between governments, international organizations, and local communities to tackle these critical challenges in Africa.


name: Early Warnings for All (EW4All)
alt_names: EW4All
web_url: https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/early-warnings-for-all
description:
Launched in 2022 by United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres,Early Warnings for All is a groundbreaking initiative to ensure that everyone on Earth is protected from hazardous weather, water, or climate events through life-saving early warning systems by the end of 2027.\n\nThe Early Warnings for All initiative is built on four pillars to support countries in building and operating effective and inclusive multi-hazard early warning systems: \n\nDisaster risk knowledge - led by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) \nDetection, observation, monitoring, analysis, and forecasting - led by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) \nWarning dissemination and communication - led by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) \nPreparedness and response capabilities - led by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)


name: Industrial Deep Decarbonisation Initiative
alt_names: IDDI
web_url:
https://www.industrialenergyaccelerator.org/areas-of-work/the-industrial-deep-decarbonisation-initiative/

description:
The Clean Energy Ministerial Industrial Deep Decarbonization Initiative (IDDI) is a global coalition of public and private organisations who are working to stimulate demand for low carbon industrial materials. In collaboration with national governments, the IDDI works to standardize carbon assessments, establish ambitious public and private sector procurement targets, incentivize investment into low-carbon product development and design industry guidelines.\n\nCoordinated by UNIDO, the IDDI is co-led by the UK and India. Additional members include Canada, Germany, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, the United Arab Emirates and the United States. The initiative brings together a strong coalition of related initiatives and organizations including the Mission Possible Platform, the Leadership Group for Industry Transition (LeadIT) and the World Economic Forum to tackle carbon intensive construction materials such as steel, cement and concrete.


name: Just Transition and Decent Jobs Pledge from the private sector
alt_names: Pledge for a Just Transition and Decent Jobs
web_url: https://www.bteam.org/our-thinking/news/just-transition-pledge
description:
Companies pledge to comply with the following standards with respect to their employees, and only use contractors who also comply with these standards: (1) Social dialogue with workers and their unions; (2) Workers rights, including the ILO core labour standards and ILO occupational health and safety standards; (3) Social protection, including pension and health; (4) Wage guarantees, including prevailing wage rates for skilled workers in the relevant industries. \n\nCompanies also pledge to support their national governments to join the ‘Advancing a Just Transition and the Creation of Green Jobs for All for Ambitious Climate Action’ initiative. And to encourage countries to support a just ecological transition by formulating national plans for a just transition and decent jobs, within which business has an important role. Objectives of the initiative are to involve private sector entities aware of how they can contribute to a just transition and \ncommitted to provide green and decent jobs in growing industries.


name: Net Zero Carbon Events
web_url: https://www.netzerocarbonevents.org/
description:
Through this initiative, we aim to link all stakeholders in the corporate, professional, academic and destination communities world-wide that have also committed to engagement in what is one of the biggest collective challenges we all face today, and to invite those that have not done so yet to join.\n\nThe Net Zero Carbon Events initiative aims to bring together a wide range of industry stakeholders to:\n\nJointly communicate our industry’s commitment to tackling climate change and driving towards net zero by 2050\n\nDevelop common methodologies for measuring the industry’s direct, indirect and supply chain greenhouse gas emissions\n\nConstruct an industry-wide roadmap towards net zero by 2050, and emissions reductions by 2030 in line with the Paris Agreement, with support and guidance on key issues\n\nFoster collaboration with suppliers and customers to ensure alignment and common approaches\n\nEstablish common mechanisms for reporting progress and sharing best practice\n\nThe new initiative arises from the work of an organizing task force initiated by JMIC members UFI, AIPC and ICCA joined by representatives of Emerald Expositions (US), Freeman (US), HKCEC (China), Informa (UK), Javits Center (US), MCI (Switzerland), Messe München (Germany), RX (UK) and Scottish Event Campus (UK) and it was born from a discussion with the UNFCCC secretariat — United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change secretariat — which is also supporting the initiative.\n\nWe are inviting all interested parties to join us on this journey. The aim is to grow this initiative that represents the events industry as a whole and provide a collaborative commitment we can all act on.


name: Subnational Climate Fund (SCF)
alt_names: SCF,Subnational Climate Finance Fund
web_url: https://www.subnational.finance/
description:
The goal of the SCF is to catalyse climate mitigation and adaptation solutions at the subnational level through a transformative finance model. The model is designed to attract public and private investment and to deliver certified climate and Sustainable Development impacts and Nature-based Solutions. The subnational level is key: 70% of known climate solutions are located within the remit of subnational authorities. Significant additional investment is needed in this sector to achieve the climate goals of the Paris Agreement. The SCF presents a positive disruption on how subnational climate projects should be structured, de-risked, and funded by both public and private investors, while monitored and benchmarked at the highest level of rigour and quality.


name: Agriculture Innovation Mechanism for Scale
alt_names: AIM for Scale
web_url: https://aimforscale.org/about-us/
description:
The Agriculture Innovation Mechanism for Scale (AIM for Scale) develops tailored packages and mobilizes investments to bring cost-effective, scalable innovations to hundreds of millions of farmers. \n\nRaising global ambition and driving rapid and transformative climate action worldwide – including by enabling science-based and data-driven decision and policy-making – will be key. In this way, AIM for Climate partners are creating a surge of solutions, enabling a quantum leap in climate-smart agriculture and food systems innovation. Together, we are empowering agriculture and food systems to be part of the solution to address the climate crisis, delivering climate action and co-benefits for a sustainable future.


name: Food Systems Call to Action
web_url: https://www.climatechampions.net/media/p5pcsd3z/food-systems-call-to-action-2024.pdf
description:
The Food Systems CtA complements the COP28 UAE Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, Resilient Food Systems, and Climate Action, which was also launched at COP 28. As of November 2024, the leaders of 160 countries have pledged to place food and agriculture at the heart of national climate and other policies and to increase their investment in resilient, equitable and sustainable food systems. The Food Systems CtA recognizes the vital role governments play in creating conditions that enable other actors to go further, faster. By mobilizing nonState actors, the Food Systems CtA aims to catalyse “ambition loops” between state and non-State actors, encouraging greater action and accountability.\xa0 \n\nDeveloped through a consultative process in 2023, the Food Systems CtA is a 2-page text, available in 7 languages, that highlights 10 priority actions and 4 principles intended to unlock the transformative potential of food systems. It centres on the need to support farmers and other frontline food systems actors, with a particular focus on women and youth, as well as vulnerable communities. Incorporating feedback from hundreds of individuals and entities, the final text was published on the High-Level Champions website along with an endorsement process. This process includes the submission of a Statement of Action for endorsers to emphasise additional priority points and detail the actions they are taking that align with the CtA, promoting transparency and accountability. The full list of current endorsers is available on the High-Level Champions website. The Food Systems CtA will remain open for endorsement by non-State actors until COP 30 in Belem. 


name: Baku Declaration on Water for Climate Action
web_url:
https://cop29.az/en/media-hub/news/nearly-50-countries-sign-baku-declaration-on-water-for-climate-action-as-cop29-concludes-thematic-day-calendar

description:
The COP29 Declaration on Water for Climate Action calls upon stakeholders to\npromote dialogue and partnerships at all levels, including regional and basin levels,\nstrengthen the generation of scientific evidence on the causes and impacts of climate\nchange on water resources, water basins and water-related ecosystems, and enhance\nwater-related climate policy actions.\nTo enable the implementation of these actions, the Declaration launches the Baku\nDialogue on Water for Climate Action (the Baku Dialogue) to serve as a COP-to-\nCOP collaboration platform fostering continuity and coherence, ensuring a\nconsistent focus on water and its interplay with climate change, biodiversity loss,\npollution, and desertification, focusing on actions at the international, regional, river\nand basin levels.


name: COP29 Declaration on Enhanced Action in Tourism
web_url: https://cop29.az/en/pages/cop29-declaration-on-enhanced-climate-action-in-tourism
description:
The COP29 Declaration on Enhanced Climate Action in Tourism is a collective commitment by national governments, UN agencies, international organizations, and financial institutions to accelerate climate action within the tourism sector. Acknowledging tourism’s vulnerability to climate change and its significant contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions, the declaration emphasizes the sectors potential to drive both mitigation and adaptation efforts. It calls for integrating tourism into national climate policies such as NDCs and NAPs, and highlights the need for sustainable practices, clean technologies, and circular economy approaches. Special attention is given to supporting developing countries, especially SIDS and LDCs, where tourism is economically vital. The declaration underscores the importance of financing, technology transfer, and inclusive dialogue, reaffirming a shared commitment to building a low-carbon, climate-resilient future for global tourism.


name: COP29 Declaration on Multisectoral Actions Pathways (MAP) for Resilient and Healthy Cities
web_url: https://cop29.az/en/pages/map-to-resilient-and-healthy-cities-background-information
description:
Notwithstanding the existence of numerous urban climate initiatives (e.g. Sustainable Urban Resilience for the Next Generation (SURGe), Coalition for High Ambition Multilevel Partnerships (CHAMP), cities continue to struggle with poor creditworthiness, lack of technical expertise and institutional capacity to develop bankable projects, and subsequently securing adequate funding. Additionally, the lack of, or instability of national policies regarding sustainability in urban areas and urban resilience disrupt ongoing initiatives, creating additional barriers to accessing the required financing. Together, these factors contribute to a persistent gap in urban climate action, underscoring the need for multisectoral, multilevel and multistakeholder efforts.\n \nTo address the abovementioned issues, the COP29 Presidency is launching the Multisectoral Actions Pathways (MAP) to Resilient and Healthy Cities initiative on the 20th of November, on the Urbanization Day of the COP29. The initiative will exchange in the multisectoral and multilevel stakeholder landscape of urban development, including the public and the private sector, to collaboratively address the challenges toward achieving sustainable, climate resilient and healthy cities, leveraging each sector’s opportunities, capabilities, and technical capacities. 


name: Baku Harmoniya Climate Initiative for Farmers
web_url: https://cop29.az/en/pages/baku-harmoniya-climate-initiative-for-farmers-concept
description:
The Harmoniya Initiative aims to bring coherence to the fragmented landscape of agriculture, food, and water initiatives by serving as a central platform that connects and empowers farmers, villages, and rural communities. It will promote collaboration, share knowledge, and identify synergies to foster sustainable, resilient agrifood systems. The initiative focuses on three main goals: mapping and connecting existing efforts, catalyzing investments through partnerships with development banks, and empowering marginalized groups, especially women and youth, for climate adaptation. With a science-based approach, it seeks to enhance food security, reduce emissions, and support biodiversity while aligning with the 2030 Agenda and the upcoming 2026 International Year of the Woman Farmer.


name: COP29 Declaration on Green Digital Action
web_url: https://cop29.az/en/pages/cop29-declaration-on-green-digital-action
description:
The COP29 Presidency has announced Green Digital Action as one of the 14 global initiatives under its Action Agenda. The purpose of presidency-led initiatives is to advance climate action, encourage non-party stakeholder engagement, and support the COP29 vision to enhance ambition and enable action.\n\nThe outcome Declaration aims to accelerate climate-positive digitalization and emission reductions in the Information and Communication Technology sector and enhance accessibility of green digital technologies.


name: Baku Climate and Peace Action Hub
alt_names: Baku Call on Climate Action for Peace, Relief, and Recovery
web_url:
https://cop29.az/en/media-hub/news/cop29-presidency-launches-baku-call-on-climate-action-for-peace-relief-and-recovery

description:
The Baku Call on Climate Action for Peace, Relief, and Recovery, launched by the COP29 Presidency in collaboration with countries including Egypt, Italy, Germany, Uganda, the UAE, and the UK, is a landmark initiative addressing the urgent intersection of climate change, conflict, and humanitarian crises. It establishes the Baku Climate and Peace Action Hub, a coordination platform based in Baku, to align and scale up peace-sensitive climate actions. The initiative aims to support the most climate-vulnerable and conflict-affected communities through joint international efforts, enhanced finance, and collaboration across peace and climate initiatives, such as CRSP, CRRP, C4P, and Italy’s Mattei Plan. Key priorities include water security, food resilience, and land restoration, with special focus on vulnerable groups like women, children, and youth.


name: SPECA Multi-Partner Trust Fund
web_url:
https://unece.org/climate-change/press/cop29-ushers-speca-multi-partner-trust-fund-and-speca-climate-and-innovation

description:
The Fund will financially support programmes implemented by participating UN organizations and their partners. These programmes will help address common economic development and regional integration challenges in the context of global trends, such as climate change, pollution, biodiversity loss, digitalization, the shifting structures of global supply chains and other issues, as well as the SPECA region’s specific needs.  \n\nThe emphasis will be on strengthening the SPECA region’s connectivity and on harnessing the positive transformative forces that are needed to achieve the strategic objectives of SPECA. The Fund will ensure that initiatives are adaptive to changing circumstances, with built-in flexibility to keep pace with the shifting development landscape, the inter-connected challenges of sustainable development, and the priorities of the SPECA participating States. 


name: Glaciers to Farms
web_url: https://www.adb.org/news/videos/glaciers-farms-working-together-food-security-central-and-west-asia
description:
The Glaciers to Farms initiative, launched by the Asian Development Bank and supported by the Green Climate Fund, aims to promote sustainable water use and food security in Central Asia, the South Caucasus, and Pakistan in response to the accelerating impacts of glacial melt due to climate change. The program will conduct scientific risk assessments and mobilize up to $3.5 billion for climate-resilient investments in water, agriculture, and vulnerable mountain communities. It seeks to enhance regional collaboration to safeguard water resources, support livelihoods, and build resilience in ecosystems and societies threatened by the rapid loss of glaciers.


name: COP29 Baku Ocean Declaration
web_url: https://oceanpavilion-cop.org/baku-ocean-declaration/
description:
This initiative emphasizes the critical role of the ocean in addressing climate change by acting as a major carbon sink and heat absorber. It calls for expanded global investment in ocean observation, research, and technology, especially in vulnerable regions like Small Island Developing States (SIDS), to better understand and manage the ocean’s role in climate mitigation and adaptation. It advocates for international cooperation, increased public and private funding, enhanced capacity building, and improved access to ocean data. By advancing ocean science and awareness, the initiative aims to support effective Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), and coordinated global action to meet climate, biodiversity, and desertification goals.


name: 2030 Marine Biodiversity and Ocean Health Breakthrough and Roadmap
alt_names: Marine Biodiversity and Ocean Health Programme
web_url: https://www.sustainableshipping.org/roadmap/updatedoceansvisionarea/
description:
The 2030 Marine Biodiversity and Ocean Health Breakthrough and Roadmap provides specific near-term actions and milestones for the maritime sector with respect to ocean health and biodiversity, and creates a shared vision for climate and nature across all stakeholders. By utilizing resilient solutions and an equitable approach, the Roadmap details how maritime actors can minimize impacts on marine biodiversity whilst tackling the triple global crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution.


name: Microfinance for ecosystem-based adaptation
alt_names: MEbA
web_url: http://unepmeba.org/
description:
The Microfinance for Ecosystem-based Adaptation (MEbA) project seeks to provide vulnerable rural and peri-urban populations with access to microfinance products and services that allow them to invest in activities that improve their income, increase their climate resilience and allow them to sustainably use ecosystems and their services.\n\nWe focus on developing solutions for Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) and their clients to increase their capacity to manage climate information and risks, while promoting ecosystem-based adaptation options (EbA).


name: ConcreteZero
web_url: https://www.theclimategroup.org/concretezero
description:
ConcreteZero is a global initiative that brings together pioneering organisations to create a market for net zero concrete. By harnessing the collective purchasing power and influence of ConcreteZero members, were sending a strong demand signal to shift global markets, investment and policies towards the sustainable production and sourcing of concrete.


name: Global Forest Coalition
web_url: https://globalforestcoalition.org/
description:
The Global Forest Coalition (GFC) is an international alliance of non-governmental organizations and Indigenous Peoples’ groups working together to promote forest conservation and restoration, as well as to defend the rights of forest communities and Indigenous Peoples. Founded in 2000, GFC focuses on addressing the root causes of deforestation and forest degradation, such as industrial agriculture, intensive livestock farming, and unsustainable development policies. The coalition conducts campaigns, research, and advocacy at the global level, demanding solutions based on social justice, gender equity, and respect for human and environmental rights. Additionally, GFC promotes community-based, sustainable alternatives for forest management and actively participates in international forums such as the United Nations and the Convention on Biological Diversity.


name: Global Waste to Zero
web_url: https://globalwastetozero.com/
description:
Introducing Waste to Zero: The Global Initiative for Waste Decarbonization. With waste generation projected to increase by 50% by 2050, the need to address waste management environmental impact is paramount. Emissions from the sector are estimated to contribute to at least 3% of world GHG emissions, and contribute to ecosystem degradation, resource scarcity and public health risks. Launched in the context of the Year of Sustainability, Waste to Zero aims to formalize waste management practices and engage stakeholders worldwide to decarbonize the sector, unlock economic opportunities, and contribute to global climate change mitigation efforts.\n


name: Nature Needs Half
web_url: https://natureneedshalf.org/
description:
Nature Needs Half is an international coalition of scientists, conservationists, nonprofits, and public officials defending nature at the scale she needs to continue to function for the benefit of all life, and support human well-being. And weve got a global ground game in place that will protect 50% of the planet by 2030, turning the tide in favor of Earths life support systems and transforming societys relationship with nature, one ecoregion and country at a time.


name: Kelp Forest Alliance
web_url: https://kelpforestalliance.com/
description:
Beneath our temperate and arctic seas, kelps, a marine ‘plant’, create lush underwater forests that provide the thread for a rich tapestry of life.\n\nWithin these kelp forests, sea birds and otters search for food. Abalone and urchins, cling to a wave swept rock as lobsters scuttle by. Fish brustle through the towering canopy while sea stars and hundreds of other marine species go about their daily business.\n\nThe benefits of these ecosystems to us humans are enormous, and are valued at 500 billion dollars per year. Kelp forests draw carbon from the atmosphere, exude oxygen, reduce damage from storms, improve water quality, and draw visitors to their depths.\n\nRising sea temperatures, overgrazing, overfishing, and water pollution are causing the deforestation of kelp forests across the globe. Southern Australia and Northern California have lost 95% of their giant and bull kelp forests and declines have occurred on every continent. When kelp forests disappear, so do the fish, and so do the livelihoods that they support.


name: Kelp Forest Challenge
web_url: https://kelpforestalliance.com/kelp-forest-challenge
description:
The Kelp Forest Challenge is a global movement to raise our connection to the ocean and ultimate protect and restore 4 million hectares of kelp forests by 2040.\n\nIt was collaboratively created and is a shared vision of what we need to do to save our underwater forests.\n\nAnyone can get involved, it doesnt matter if you are a snorkeller, CEO, scientist, artist, Prime Minister, or ocean lover you can join the movement. We accept pledges to protect or restore kelp forests, increase awareness, assist conservation projects, or inspire the world. If you think you can help the kelp, let us know.


name: Mesoamerican Territorial Fund (FTM)
web_url: https://fondomesoamericano.org/en/home-en/
description:
The Mesoamerican Territorial Fund (FTM) is an alternative financial mechanism designed by the Mesoamerican Alliance of Peoples and Forests (AMPB), by and for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs). Our objective is to promote rights-based, efficient and effective direct investment in key Mesoamerican territories while ensuring lower transaction costs and management of funds according to clear protocols and accountability.


name: The International Small Group and Tree Planting Program (TIST)
web_url: https://program.tist.org/
description:
When we talk about climate change, the scale and metrics are often too vast or abstract for the average person to take stock: 1.5 degrees Celsius of global warming, 25 centimeters of sea level rise over the last century, hundreds of thousands of acres of forests lost to deforestation, billions of dollars invested in clear-cutting or saving forests.  \n\nAll too often, we view climate change through this lens of numbers, science, and finance. This overlooks the true heart of the issue: the people and communities. And with many climate narratives centering the Global North, it gives short shrift to the people most at risk—and to their efforts to change the world.  \n\nThe International Small Group and Tree Planting Program, known as TIST, is helping reframe these narratives by empowering the heroes of the climate change story. \n\nAn innovative small-scale growing community of smallholder farmers who have joined together, TIST helps African farmers build climate resilient communities and improve the lives of their families, local areas, countries, and the world. \n\nEstablished in 1999 out of a desire to mitigate climate change while simultaneously improving the lives of the poorest people in the world, TIST is active in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and India. TIST encourages small groups of subsistence farmers to improve their local environment and farms by planting and maintaining trees on degraded and/or unused land. These farmers work together in small groups (or “clusters”) that support each other by sharing best practices for sustainable conservation farming.  


name: Alliance for Industry Decarbonization (AFID)
web_url: https://allianceforindustrydecarbonization.org/
description:
The Alliance for Industry Decarbonization aims to decarbonize industrial value chains and accelerate net-zero ambitions in accordance with the Paris Agreement. The Alliance’s founders and partners, consisting of private and public organizations and stakeholders operating in energy-intensive sectors, commit to collaborate toward the common vision of a green future. The Alliance members believe in the power of partnerships based on honest dialogue and concrete actions.


name: Canopy Trust
web_url: https://canopytrust.org/en/
description:
Canopy Trust is providing blended finance solutions to attract private sector investments to limit deforestation and support socio-economic development in Central Africa, by mobilizing concessional capital to attract private investor. Technical assistance to develop a solid pipeline of investable project. Strategic investments: direct investment at project level, and investment at fund level with junior capital.


name: Forest and Farm Facility
alt_names: FFF
web_url: https://www.fao.org/forest-farm-facility
description:
The Forest and Farm Facility provides direct financial support and technical assistance to strengthen forest and farm producer organizations representing smallholders, rural women’s groups, local communities and indigenous peoples’ institutions. Collectively, forest and farm producers have the potential to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and to respond to climate change at landscape scales. A partnership between FAO, IIED, IUCN and AgriCord, the Forest and Farm Facility is funded by Sweden, Germany, the United Kingdom, Finland, the United States of America, the Netherlands and IKEA.


name: Forest Solutions Group
web_url: https://www.wbcsd.org/actions/forest-solutions-group/
description:
Our Forest Solutions Group (FSG) is the global platform where leading business in the forest products sector build and share solutions to sustainable development. FSG’s mission is to grow an inclusive circular bioeconomy that is rooted in thriving working forests.The Forest Sector SDG Roadmap released in 2019, provides FSG’s framework for action. As a sign of shared commitment and as a condition of FSG membership, FSG members endorse and adhere to a set of Membership Principles & Responsibilities, and report annually on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to track progress towards achieving the SDGs.


name: Green Grids Initiative
alt_names: GGI
web_url: https://greengridsinitiative.net/
description:
The Green Grids Initiative (GGI) coordinates international action, and mobilises technical expertise and financing to accelerate the development of green grids necessary to meet net zero commitments. There is no transition without transmission. There are three thematic pillars:\n\n1. Finance\nGrids are not yet considered the low-risk investable assets that they should be. By convening financiers and setting out common principles for grid investments, the GGI facilitates the doubling in grid investment needed by 2030.\n\n2. Planning, Permitting & Operation\nEffective long-term planning is not widespread and too many states do not plan ahead enough to provide certainty to the market. Cumbersome permitting slows progress where plans exist.\n\n3.  Supply Chains \nSupply chain capacity for grids components has been flat, with limited ability to ramp up at pace. Buyers need affordable supply to plan projects and suppliers need commitments that enable them to invest in new manufacturing capacity. The GGI is working hard to coordinate supply and demand to deliver on grids.


name: United Nations Global Seaweed Initiative
web_url: https://unctad.org/topic/trade-and-environment/united-nations-global-seaweed-initiative
description:
The United Nations Global Seaweed Initiative (UNGSI) is a global collaborative platform established to accelerate the safe, sustainable and inclusive development of the seaweed sector. The initiative brings together UN Member States, UN entities, research institutions, industry and civil society to harness the potential of seaweed for climate action, environmental protection and socio-economic development. UNGSI is based on the idea that seaweed represents an important nature-based solution that can simultaneously contribute to climate mitigation, climate adaptation and sustainable development.


name: WorldGBC Building the Transition (BtT)
web_url: https://worldgbc.org/building-the-transition/
description:
Building the Transition is the global flagship programme of the World Green Building Council (WorldGBC), created to accelerate the transformation of the built environment towards a sustainable, resilient, and climate-neutral future. The initiative aims for the full decarbonisation of buildings and infrastructure by 2050 and is supported by a network of more than 75 national Green Building Councils, representing over 48,000 members across the construction and real estate sectors. The central message of Building the Transition is that the built environment, responsible for a large share of global emissions and resource use, plays a crucial role in achieving climate goals, and that immediate, large-scale action is essential.\nThe initiative focuses on three main impact areas: drastically reducing greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption, promoting healthy and resilient buildings and communities, and regenerating natural systems through the advancement of a circular economy. For 2030, Building the Transition has set concrete targets, including a 35% reduction in energy intensity, a 40% reduction in embodied carbon, a 50% reduction in operational emissions, and ensuring that all new buildings are zero-emission. The programme also seeks to create a built environment that enhances health and wellbeing, reduces air, soil, and water pollution, minimises waste, and moves towards ‘net zero whole-life resource depletion’.\nTo achieve these goals, Building the Transition operates through three interconnected lines of action. The first is the co-creation of national and sectoral transition pathways (“roadmaps”) in collaboration with local Green Building Councils, governments, businesses, and civil society partners. These roadmaps guide policy, regulation, and market initiatives that align national building sectors with the Paris Agreement. The second line of action focuses on global, regional, and local mobilisation, raising awareness, fostering collaboration between the private sector, financial institutions, and policymakers, and promoting the role of the built environment within international climate negotiations such as COP28. The third pillar involves developing supportive policies, standards, and building guidelines that accelerate the shift towards a low-carbon, circular built environment, including tools like the Zero Carbon & Climate Resilience Readiness Framework.\nThe programme also operates through three complementary workstreams: Align, Partner, and Scale. Align aims to harmonise ambitions worldwide, avoid duplication, and promote knowledge sharing. Partner focuses on building coalitions among public and private stakeholders, financiers, and civil society organisations. Scale seeks to accelerate the implementation of national roadmaps, mobilise leadership, and create the scale effects needed to drive systemic change.\nBuilding the Transition is therefore both a global network and an action programme that provides practical pathways to reduce emissions, enhance wellbeing, and limit the use of natural resources. At its core lies the belief that the built environment is not only part of the climate problem but also a vital part of the solution provided the sector acts collectively and decisively now to keep the 1.5°C target within reach.\n


name: IEA Bioenergy Task 39
web_url: https://task39.ieabioenergy.com/
description:
The goal of Task 39 is to provide participants with comprehensive information to assist with the development and deployment of transportation biofuels. The Task coordinates both technical and the infrastructure issues related to biofuels. To meet this goal, the Task objectives are to:\n\n1. Provide information and analyses on policy, markets and implementation issues that help encourage the adoption of sustainable conventional biofuels and help commercialize advanced liquid biofuels as a replacement for fossil-based fuels\n\n2. Catalyze cooperative research and development projects that will help participants develop improved, cost-effective processes for the production of advanced liquid biofuels.\n\n3. Provide information dissemination, outreach to stakeholders, and coordination with other related groups


name: Green Digital Action
web_url: https://www.itu.int/initiatives/green-digital-action/
description:
Green Digital Action works with the global digital community in developing practical solutions, boosting industry-wide climate support, and strengthening global frameworks for monitoring and reporting since its launch at COP28 in 2023, . Through platforms like the ITU’s Partner2Connect Digital Coalition, it has mobilized tangible commitments to accelerate green and digital transitions. 


