The COP of Implementation: Action Agenda Delivers Accelerated Progress on 117 Solutions. Read it here.
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The COP of Implementation: Action Agenda Delivers Accelerated Progress on 117 Solutions. Read it here.
Parts of this site were translated using AI. Accuracy may vary.
Wednesday, 19 November 2025 | By COP30 Presidency
The High-Level Event highlighted that cooperation is critical and effective. Photo: Rafa Neddermeyer/COP30
High-Level Event recognizes accelerated action, reaffirms guiding objectives of COP30 Presidency: reinforcing multilateralism as an indispensable force to confront shared global challenges; demonstrating that the climate regime can deliver tangible improvements in people’s daily lives; and transitioning decisively into the phase of implementation—turning every commitment into concrete action.
The COP30 Global Climate Action (GCA) High-Level Event convened today to recognize the impact and celebrate the achievements across the redefined COP30 Action Agenda, including 117 Plans to Accelerate Solutions (PAS). The milestone moment, taking place in the Plenary Hall Tocantins, gathered the COP29 and COP30 Presidencies, the UNFCCC Executive Secretary, the Climate High-Level Champions, Parties, international organizations, and non-Party stakeholders. The event highlighted both the urgency of implementation and the continued evolution of the Global Climate Action Agenda as a global, multisectoral framework that unlocks the potential of the work of previous years.
The COP30 Action Agenda was designed to coordinate and accelerate the delivery of past efforts, building on a decade of initiatives mobilized since COP21, unifying active coalitions into one coordinated framework that prioritizes implementation, transparency, and real-world results. Today’s event recognizes the progress made through this redefined approach to demonstrate and accelerate what is working for climate action.
“This is the spirit of Mutirão — the collective effort that defines this COP, and that I hope will define the next five years of global climate action,” said COP30 Climate High-Level Champion Dan Ioschpe. He added, “Everyone here is part of it. Each one of you is part of it.”
Communities around the world—particularly the most vulnerable—are increasingly experiencing the impacts of climate change. The first Global Stocktake and the latest NDC Synthesis Report confirmed that, while progress has been made, delivering a livable and equitable future requires full implementation of current commitments and a significant increase in ambition. The Climate Action Agenda seeks to empower a collective response by accelerating real world solutions through innovative, locally grounded responses. Through these sustainable, innovative solutions, climate action is increasingly part of people’s daily lives: electric vehicles in driveways, solar panels on rooftops across continents, LEDs and sustainable packaging becoming the norm. These changes demonstrate how negotiated outcomes translate into real-world transformation, while underscoring the urgent need for a just transition that ensures these benefits reach all communities equitably.
The High-Level Event highlighted that cooperation is critical and effective: a decade ago, the world was on track for 4°C of warming, and today collective action has helped bend that trajectory to around 2.6°C. Yet, the overall message was clear — the world remains off track, and accelerating implementation is indispensable.
“To accelerate implementation, we need a coalition of the willing, we need a whole-of-society approach, " said COP30 CEO Ana Toni. “Our countries are not able to implement the commitments made here without the private sector, investors, the subnational governments and all our societies.”
Over the past months, the COP29 and COP30 Presidencies and Champions engaged 482 initiatives launched at previous COP to demonstrate and accelerate implementation. In concrete terms, six times more initiatives reported measurable outcomes relative to the last COP—evidence that implementation is accelerating and becoming visible in households, farms, clinics, and cities around the world.
One of the defining features of the GCA Agenda at COP30 is its unified approach: for the first time, national governments and non-state actors are aligned under a single agenda of action. Previously, each ecosystem advanced efforts in parallel. Now, initiatives are unified to accelerate climate solutions through coordinated implementation.
The “Climate Action Agenda is a central catalyst for implementation: where multilevel governance and cooperation between governments and non-Party actors accelerates us towards our goals, said UN Executive Secretary Simon Stiell. He added, “The responsibility now lies with all of us – Parties and non-Parties, public and private sectors, national and subnational implementers – to deliver results fast, fairly, and at scale.”
This reflects the first part of the process of implementation: coordination. Fragmented efforts slow progress; coordinated efforts scale solutions. Building on the efforts of previous COP presidencies and the work of so many across the climate ecosystems, this evolved agenda delivers a rich and lively action agenda ecosystem that sets the course for the next decisive decade of action.
Examples showcased included:
Industrial decarbonization, where initiatives were brought together to align action plans for steel, fertilizers, cement, and chemicals, including new cooperation on low-carbon fertilizers.
Health, where philanthropies aligned resources to support the Belém Health Action Plan, strengthening health systems against climate-related threats such as heat stress and vector-borne diseases.
Energy systems, where COP30 delivered a strengthened grids ecosystem, building on the Green Grids Initiative from COP26 and major investment commitments from COP28. GGI and UNEZA joined with CEM, IRENA, and the IEA to advance a global plan to invest about USD 1 trillion in tripling renewable capacity by 2030.
The COP29 Climate High-Level Champion, Nigar Arpadarai, emphasized that “every declaration should lead to action and every pledge to a plan.” She added, “Our multi-stakeholder architecture sparked more than 100 plans to accelerate solutions — action needs to happen 365 days a year.”
This unified approach avoids thematic fragmentation and emphasizes multisectoral partnerships—showing how coordination accelerates deployment.
The Action Agenda is explicitly oriented toward implementing what has been negotiated, reinforcing complementarity with the formal negotiation process. Negotiators increasingly view the Agenda as a delivery arm, not a parallel track. In this sense, placing the First Global Stocktake as a compass for implementation, a framework of six thematic axes is offered as a guide for coordination and acceleration in the 5-Year Vision for the Global Climate Action presented at the event. To ensure ongoing accountability, the process also places transparency as a crucial priority: every new declaration must be accompanied by a clear delivery plan.
One example is the Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Land Tenure Pledge launched at COP26. The USD 1.7 billion promised was delivered a year early, and donors renewed support with an additional USD 1.5–2 billion through 2030.
This structured yet flexible continuity, manifests itself on the 5-year vision for the Global Climate Action Agenda, designed to strengthen continuity and global applicability beyond Belém.
The third part—unlocking barriers to scale existing solutions—guided much of the Agenda presented at COP30. This means focusing collective action to unblock levers such as standards, regulation, supply, demand, governance, and others that can allow for solutions to scale. It means bringing intentionality to collaboration.
This approach was illustrated across the six collaboration axes, presenting concrete solutions.
Axis 1 –Transitioning Energy, Industry, Transport
COP30 highlighted progress surpassing previous commitments and delivered a strengthened grids ecosystem. GGI, UNEZA, CEM, IRENA, and IEA will jointly drive a USD 1 trillion investment plan to triple renewable capacity by 2030, responding to the ambition set out by the First Global Stocktake.
This effort complements a surge in utility investment, with the UNEZA alliance raising its annual target to USD 148 billion—including USD 82 billion for grids and storage—and MDBs financing regional interconnection, such as the USD 12.5 billion plan for the ASEAN Power Grid.
Axis 2 – Stewarding Forests, Oceans, and Biodiversity
The USD 1.7 billion COP26 pledge was delivered early; donors renewed support with USD 1.5–2 billion through 2030. This illustrates consistency coupled with ambition.
These commitments align with broader land-rights advancements benefiting over 160 million hectares and ensuring that at least 20% of tropical forest financing flows directly to IPLCs.
Axis 3 – Transforming Agriculture and Food Systems
With the Action Agenda on Regenerative Landscapes (AARL), investments quadrupled since 2023, surpassing USD 9 billion toward 2030 and benefiting 12 million farmers across more than 110 countries.
The RAIZ plan builds on the partnership with COP27 FAST Partnership to advance blended finance mechanisms for land restoration, such as restoring 50 million hectares in Brazil’s Cerrado with a 19% return for over 600,000 farmers. Its global target—restoring 1 billion hectares—could increase food production by 44 million tonnes annually.
Axis 4 – Building Resilience for Cities, Infrastructure and Water
Two-thirds of new NDCs now have stronger subnational and urban content among 78 CHAMP members.
With new training programs and localized finance platforms, CHAMP aims to ensure that by 2028, climate finance reaches at least 200 cities.
Axis 5 – Fostering Human & Social Development
With USD 300 million committed by more than 35 philanthropies, the Belém Health Action Plan launched last week advances resilience in health systems, addressing climate-related health risks and supporting countries through WHO’s ATACH mechanism - launched at COP26.
Axis 6 – Unleashing Enablers and Accelerators including on Financing, Technology and Capacity-Building
By making National Adaptation Plans investible, Adaptation Finance (FINI) aims to deliver USD 1 trillion in adaptation project pipelines over the next three years, including 20% from private investors.
Complementary efforts—such as 150 cities implementing heat action plans for 3.5 billion people—signal that adaptation finance is scaling.
Altogether, the Agenda presented 117 collective action plans across sectors including land restoration, health, clean transport, food systems, and super-pollutant mitigation. We invite you to check them out and join us at COP of implementation.
This article was originally published by the COP30 Presidency on 19.11.2025 and is available in English and Portuguese.
